Re: Floppy disk filesystem

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/03/07 22:47, rocky wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm following Pocket Linux Guide from www.tldp.org. The 2nd chapter
> 2.3.1 talks about prepare the book disk media.
>
> I got a blank floppy disk, inserted it in and did the following
> $-----code1 begin---------$
> ronie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
> dd: writing `/dev/fd0': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.803137 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
> $-----code1 end--------$
[snip]
> $---------------code4 begin-----------------------$
> ronie:~# dmesg | tail
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 7, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 7, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 42
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 5
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 7, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 7, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 6
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd0.
> $-------------------code4 end-------------------------$
>
> What is the filesystem I should specify for this?

The Great Filesystem In The Sky.  Seems to me that it's a bad disk.

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