From: Sebastian Szonyi <sony@faraday.ee.utt.ro>
To: Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 16:58:50 +0300 (EEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205051654260.10373-100000@faraday.ee.utt.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020505143831.040b18a0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 14:39:47 +0100
> 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
>
> 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
>
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 :-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 13:58 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 [this message]
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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