Something odd is going on with my floppy drive, maybe it's just a hardware problem? In the first example you will see that I can format a floppy, mount it, but then I can not copy any files to it.
---------------------------------------------example---------------- Sun Sep 04 09:02:16 /home/skippi root $ mke2fs /dev/fd0 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. Sun Sep 04 09:03:18 /home/skippi root $ mkdir /floppy Sun Sep 04 09:03:40 /home/skippi root $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Sun Sep 04 09:03:56 /home/skippi root $ mkdir -p /floppy/boot/grub mkdir: cannot create directory `/floppy/boot': Input/output error ----------------------------------------------------- now here, I mount my GRUB floppy, which has files on it, since I used this to boot my computer, yet I can't actually see any of the files. --------------------------------another example-------------- Sun Sep 04 09:08:06 /home/skippi root $ mount /mnt/floppy/ Sun Sep 04 09:08:26 /home/skippi root $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 11718996 6638084 5080912 57% / /dev/hde9 266180800 232401964 33778836 88% /home /dev/fd0 1412 158 1182 12% /mnt/floppy Sun Sep 04 09:08:31 /home/skippi root $ cd /mnt/floppy/ Sun Sep 04 09:08:36 /mnt/floppy root $ ls Sun Sep 04 09:08:46 /mnt/floppy root $ du 1.0K . 1.0K total Sun Sep 04 09:08:59 /mnt/floppy root $ Simply a bad drive? I have tried numerous floppy disk, and they can't all be bad. Any other ideas for troubleshooting? Thank you very much. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm The Cynical Libertarian Society: http://www.204EastSouth.com/cls -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
