Re: 2.0.25 tells me "floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request"

Bob Lanning (lanning@tidbit.fhda.edu)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:26:46 -0800 (PST)

---- As written by Gerd Knorr:
>
>
>
> Hi *,
>
> Got the message above while copying a 1.44 Floppy from 3.5" to 5.25" using
> the following line:
>
> felix root ~# fdformat /dev/fd1h1440; dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/disk; dd if=/tmp/disk of=/dev/fd1h1440
> Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
> Formatting ... done
> Verifying ... done
> floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
>
> Copied 3 floppys this way, and got this message two times.
>
> Gerd
>
> --
> Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> | http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/
>
> Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
>

Hmm.. you're making an image copy of a 1.44MB disk
onto a 1.2MB disk.

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