From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
To: Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paul@paulbristow.net,
chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 14:39:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020505143831.040b18a0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205051317.g45DHIU0000750@twopit.underworld>
At 14:17 05/05/02, Chris Rankin wrote:
>I am discovering that any floppy disks that I try to use under Linux
>don't last very long. This seems to be true with both my UP and SMP
>machines, neither of which has ever used its floppy drive enough for
>me to believe that the hardware is reaching the end of its life.
Have you tried cleaning your floppy drive? The fact that you are not using
it bears no relation to the fact that the heads may be dirty...
Best regards,
Anton
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-05 13:17 Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies Chris Rankin
2002-05-05 13:26 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-05-05 13:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
2002-05-05 13:58 ` Sebastian Szonyi
2002-05-05 14:47 ` Chris Rankin
2002-05-06 1:32 ` Horst von Brand
2002-05-06 6:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-05-06 18:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-06 18:18 ` Diego Calleja
[not found] <no.id>
2002-05-05 16:50 ` Barry K. Nathan
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