Re: argh! linux and floppies

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West:
>
>   
>> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two
>> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put
>> it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post.
>>
>> I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look at the partition(s) (do these work
>> on floppies?), and mformat, and mkfs.vfat, and fdformat, and all I ever
>> get is something like "could not get geometry of device" or "Problem
>> reading cylinder 0" or "Unable to read /dev/fd0", etc.
>>     
>
>     modprobe floppy
>   

westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> lsmod | grep floppy
floppy                 54788  0

I'm fairly confident I've got two different boxes having faulty floppy
drives (although that seems a bit suspicious). I haven't gotten back
around to pursuing the issue to be certain; I've put it on the back-burner.

Thanks, though!

-- 
Kent West
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