Re: Floppy disk filesystem

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:47:09AM -0000, rocky wrote:
> 
> 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
> $-----code1 end--------$

If you get an error in one command, don't expect sucess is later
commands.  '0+0 records out', 'Input/output error'.  These things should
tell you something.

Doug.