Hi, having some problems with my floppy. I've tried a couple of
different drives, and many disks on several machines, but this is the
only machine with problems.
mounting doesn't work, and fdformat doesn't work, and neither mke2fs nor
mkdosfs work. Neither does mounting. Notice that I'm doing everything
as root, so there aren't any permission problems (and yes, I checked rw
bits, anyhow).
System specifics:
AMD K6-2/500, lotsa memory, Asus P5A motherboard w/BIOS rev 1.07a.
Current floppy drive is brand new, although I've tried two others. All
other drives are SCSI. Kernel is 2.4.0-test2, but I had the same
problem with test1. Currently running devfs.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is set to Y. Below are the results I get from various
floppy commands.
============================With and ext2-formatted
floppy=======================
root@reliant usb $ mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy/ -t ext2
mount: block device /dev/floppy/0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/floppy/0,
or too many mounted file systems
===========================CHANGED TO A DOS
FLOPPY===============================
root@reliant usb $ mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat
mount: block device /dev/floppy/0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/floppy/0,
or too many mounted file systems
root@reliant usb $ mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos
mount: block device /dev/floppy/0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/floppy/0,
or too many mounted file systems
root@reliant usb $ fdformat /dev/floppy/0u1440
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
Formatting ...
ioctl(FDFMTBEG): No such device
root@reliant usb $ mke2fs /dev/floppy/0
mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/floppy/0: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock
root@reliant usb $ mkdosfs /dev/floppy/0
mkdosfs 0.3b (Yggdrasil), 5th May 1995 for MS-DOS FS
mkdosfs: unable to open /dev/floppy/0
============================================Using
mtools==========================
root@reliant /dev $ ln -sf floppy/0 fd0
root@reliant /dev $ mdir a:
plain_io: Input/output error
init A: could not read boot sector
Cannot initialize 'A:'
This is with diskettes which work both before and after on other
machines. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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