[ale] floppy problem
Sunil Patel
yqrsdjl at snt.bellsouth.com
Wed Oct 13 08:23:19 EDT 1999
I now can format floppy disk with verify option off on fdformat. The default verify
on use to lock up the system. I can now do mkfs, mount and ls -al as well. However,
my problem is still dd. I also tried the copy command but it hangs the system as
well. I just can't copy anything to floppy.
Sunil Patel wrote:
> I have a weird problem with my floppy drive under Red Hat 6.0.
> Everything seems to lock up when I am using Mount, or fdformat, or mkfs,
> or dd command on this floppy drive. The drive light stays green and
> you can not do anything with machine ( mouse, keyboard, etc...). I
> first thought that it might be the drive that is going bad but it seems
> to do the same thing when I swaped it out with my old 386 machine's
> floppy drive. I also try re-creating the device files by using MAKEDEV
> under /dev directory. That did not help either. does anyone have this
> same problem. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Thanks
>
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> Sunil Patel
> email: yqrsdjl at snt.bellsouth.com
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