I get this with the df command on the bad floppy:

amberton: -root-
/mnt # df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0                16208      4892     11316  30% /
/dev/ram1                 8102        87      8015   1% /var/log
/dev/fd1u1680             1664       490      1174  29% /mnt

This is the second floppy on a two floppy boot. The contents of the floppy
are:

amberton: -root-
/mnt # va
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         5632 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root          640 Dec 29 09:22 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       137593 Jan  3 10:39 jbuster.lrp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        24004 Dec 29 13:54 libz.lrp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10545 Dec 29 13:54 oidentd.lrp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18597 Dec 29 13:55 psentry.lrp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       309881 Dec 29 13:54 sshd.lrp

I have tried the copy disk script from the new back-up of Dachstein. I
formatted a blank floppy from WinImage on a Win box, then backed-up the
above programs one at a time. The script shows the back-up was fine, the
weblet page shows the error.

The error only shows on the weblet page after I back-up jbuster. The script
shows it was complete with no errors.

This drive is less than 3 months old and was purchased new.

This has me stumped, any ideas?


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Bolduc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] back-up error message via weblet, not via Putty


Well an I/O error on a disk is never a good thing ....  what you might want
to do is try mounting the disk and see how much disk space you have.  To
mount it do one of the following depending on disk size:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt   (for a standard 1.44 MB floppy)
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt    (for a 1.68 MB floppy)
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1743 /mnt    (for a 1.743 MB floppy)

then run df at the prompt.  If you are using 100% of your floppy that could
cause an error.  Also it is possible that the disk is not being mounted
properly (i.e. it is a 1.68 MB floppy and is being mounted as 1.44), or that
the disk has a bad sector on it (possible but if you are getting the same
error on 4 different floppies it may not be the case), or that there is
something amiss with your drive.

A good way to test if it is your drive is to make a copy of the disk and
then try booting your regular system (don't worry about the multiple errors
you get), then try modifying the package.  If that works then you know
something weird is going on with your floppy drive in the LEAF box, and
should replace it.  At $20 (CDN) it shouldn't be a huge issue.

S



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