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From: Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com>
To: sony@faraday.ee.utt.ro (Sebastian Szonyi)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:47:06 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205051447.g45El62s000615@twopit.underworld> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205051654260.10373-100000@faraday.ee.utt.ro> from "Sebastian Szonyi" at May 05, 2002 04:58:50 PM

> I buyed once (a long time ago) a box with 10 floppies.
> Two died in the first day of use. From the others i still have some today.
> 
> I think the quality of the floppies (and other products) today isn't so
> high :-(

Well, that's one explanation. Curiously, I've just managed to salvage
my floppy disk. My initial attempt to run either "mkfs -t vfat" or "dd
if=mini.ima of=/dev/fd0" failed, so I ran "mkfs -t ext2" instead. Once
that ran successfully, I was able to dd the image again, and this time
it worked.

Sounds like either a floppy driver bug or a vfat filesystem bug to me.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-05 14:47 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
2002-05-05 13:58   ` Sebastian Szonyi
2002-05-05 14:47     ` Chris Rankin [this message]
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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