Re: Floppydrive won't work

[Tim Gruene <tg@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>]

This looks as though the floppy in the drive is broken. To find out I
would reboot with the floppy removed. Or try another one.

( dmesg normally prints everything that was printed to the screen at boot
time, but if to much is written to that log, as in a case of repetitive
I/O errors, the beginning cannot be seen anymore)

Tim

> hjem:~#  dmesg | grep -i floppy
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 3
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 5
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 7
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 3
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 5
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 7
> hjem:~#
> [...]