[CentOS] Mounting Floppies

Nigel Kendrick
2008-06-20T09:21:21Z

-----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