Justin Piszcz wrote:
Trying to format a floppy (2-3 of them) on a GA-P35-DS4 2.0 with a
regular Sony floppy on Debian x86_64 with kernel 2.6.23.9:
# fdformat /dev/fd0
Could not determine current format type: No such device
# mformat a:
mformat: Could not get geometry of device (No such device)
#
# cat /proc/interrupts |grep floppy
6: 38 37 39 41 IO-APIC-edge floppy
# dmesg|grep -A1 fd0
[ 52.689487] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 52.704661] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
During the 'attempted format'
I've tried a few different floppies, the result is the same. The system
is 64-bit only, no 32-bit emulation is enabled using a strict
64-bit-only userland. Has anyone else gotten their floppy drive to work
under 64-bit?
Is this just a case of a DOA floppy drive or is something else wrong?
Maybe booting from a 32 bit live CD would help determine that. It
certainly was seen at boot time. Didn't get hooked to some SCSI device
name by udev, did it?
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