Re: Floppydrive won't work

["Vegard Lundby Rekaa" <vegardlr@student.matnat.uio.no>]

I gave it another go and got no result at all from 'dmesg | grep -i
floppy' or when I replaced 'floppy' with 'fd0' and 'fd'.

What does that tell me???

Best regards Vegard....

> 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:~#
>> [...]
>
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