Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both servers and they are enabled in the BIOS. I have formatted and tested the floppies on my desktop PC without problems. In the end, I gave up, stuck a USB floppy on one of the boxes and it mounted with no problems. So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could be a set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but I thought I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it! Thanks Nigel Kendrick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/636d05d9/attachment-0002.html>
Nigel Kendrick wrote:> So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could be a > set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but I thought > I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it!As always: Logfile excerpts could have been a great help. Also dmesg probably has to say something about that >:) Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/c48b7fda/attachment-0002.sig>
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies Nigel Kendrick wrote:> So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could be a > set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but I thought > I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it!As always: Logfile excerpts could have been a great help. Also dmesg probably has to say something about that >:) Ralph Oh yes, dmesg is very verbose: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Logfile is a little more specific - but not conclusive (apart from the fact that something's not right) - here's up to when I plugged in and used the USB floppy: Jun 19 11:21:51 data01 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 19 11:22:14 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:22:14 data01 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 19 11:22:32 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:22:51 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2 Jun 19 11:27:24 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:27:39 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:43:22 data01 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jun 19 11:54:01 data01 kernel: sdd:<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jun 19 15:03:14 data01 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:> Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: > > I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - > the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). > > On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have > to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the > floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both > servers and they are enabled in the BIOS. I have formatted and tested > the floppies on my desktop PC without problems. > > In the end, I gave up, stuck a USB floppy on one of the boxes and it > mounted with no problems. > > So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could > be a set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but > I thought I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it!Here is support - it may not be you. I've successfully mounted and used FDs on this system in previous kernel releases. Out of /var/log messages when I did an sfdisk -l /dev/fd0 and dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1. Jun 20 09:07:54 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:06 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:06 centos501 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 20 09:08:18 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:18 centos501 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 My dmesg has Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 If necessary (lack of prompt resolution on these lists) I'll "ribit" to an older kernel and see what happens. I suggest you might try that.> Thanks > > Nigel Kendrick > <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill