I would try a different cable. I had a strange floppy problem years ago. The cause was the cable. I had plugged in my serial printer or something with the computer turned on, and shorted out my floppy cable. Wire #1 was burned out. Joel
> Hi, list, > > This is strange. I have a standard 3.5" floppy drive. Lately (the last > few weeks), every time I want to use the floppy drive, I slap a floppy > in, try to mount the drive, and it just hangs. The mtools suite does > the same thing. The light goes on as if the disk is being accessed, > but the command prompt never returns. If I call the xterm, the disk > access continues. Just for kicks, I swapped the drive out with a known > good one and still no joy. > > Kernel-wise, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is enabled, but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY > isn't (it will be shortly). I don't recall off the top of my head if > IDEFLOPPY was configured in the kernel(s) I was running when this > last worked. I'm kinda stumped. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Kurt > -- > In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, > "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man." > -- Mark Twain > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
