Bad floppy drive or bad floppy (very very common).
try man badblocks
"Bas R. Leeflang" wrote:
>
> Dear dosemu team,
>
> I have been trying to get dosemu (0.99.10-4, 0.99.10-6, RPM builds) to
> work with floppies. After some non-succeful attemps with a kernel
> upgrade (from RH 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.5-22) I tried browsing through
> email-archives. Here the suggestion was made to downgrade to the 0.98.8
> version whih is a 'stable' release in stead of the 0.99 developer
> release.
>
> This was an improvement in so far that the dosemu was so kind to com
> back and tell me that it could not read the floppy. The error-logging,
> however was rather similar:
>
> Sep 21 11:28:56 bocpc1 kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 1, sector 1,
>size 2
>
> Sep 21 11:28:57 bocpc1 kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 1, sector 1,
>size 2
>
> Sep 21 11:28:57 bocpc1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 18
>
> Dosemu produced these lines several times (once per second).
> For my configuration the use of a stable release did not bring the
> expected.
>
> Do you have any further suggestions.
>
> BTW the floppy hardware works fine. Both mtools and normal linux mounts
> work fine for both the floppy and the hard disk partitions.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Bas Leeflang
>
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