Re: Floppy problem.

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 09 Feb 1997 16:49:49 +1100


On Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:11:22 +0000 (GMT),
Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>Problem 2) The moment it comes to load in the compressed image on the
>floppy, I get "I/O error on dev 02:00 sector 0" (or something similar).
>A search showed up a similar post by someone else a while back but it was
>not answered satisfactorily...

Take a look at linux/drivers/block/README.fd for a list of floppy
parameters. floppy=thinkpad would be my first try, then try disabling
dma.