On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > hi > ok, here's what i did. > > i grabbed the floppy disk and inserted it into a ide floppy drive on my > desktop pc running debian etch also. i did a complete format. i then > copied a file to it. i then unmounted the floppy on the desktop pc, > removed it, reinserted it into the desktop pc and mounted it again just > to make sure the disk was ok and file was still there. it was and all > good at this point. > > i then unmounted and removed the floppy from the desktop machine and > inserted it into the usb floppy on the laptop (also running debian > etch). attempting to mount it again i got the same errors: > > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 37 > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 37 > SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 > sda: Current: sense key=0x3 > ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 > Info fld=0x26 > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 38 > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 38 > SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 > sda: Current: sense key=0x3 > ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 > Info fld=0x27 > > ...and so forth for multiple sectors. > > i then removed the disk from the usb floppy and reinserted it into the > desktop's ide floppy again, mounted it, and it was ok. > > the disk must be fine, and i have tried many different disks. > > i'm stumped!!! > > any suggestions appreciated. thanks. > > Takis
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