Try:
# ls -la
after you cd into it. The files you have saved on your fd0 may be
system directories/files i.e. they may have a . before the
file/directory name.
-Original Message-
From: Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 September 2005 16:14
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot
from a grub floppy, but can't write any files
Something odd is going on with my floppy drive, maybe it's just a
hardware problem? In the first example you will see that I
can format a
floppy, mount it, but then I can not copy any files to it.
-example
Sun Sep 04 09:02:16
/home/skippi
root $ mke2fs /dev/fd0
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
184 inodes, 1440 blocks
72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
184 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Sun Sep 04 09:03:18
/home/skippi
root $ mkdir /floppy
Sun Sep 04 09:03:40
/home/skippi
root $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
Sun Sep 04 09:03:56
/home/skippi
root $ mkdir -p /floppy/boot/grub
mkdir: cannot create directory `/floppy/boot': Input/output error
-
now here, I mount my GRUB floppy, which has files on it, since I used
this to boot my computer, yet I can't actually see any of the files.
another example--
Sun Sep 04 09:08:06
/home/skippi
root $ mount /mnt/floppy/
Sun Sep 04 09:08:26
/home/skippi
root $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde7 11718996 6638084 5080912 57% /
/dev/hde9266180800 232401964 33778836 88% /home
/dev/fd0 1412 158 1182 12% /mnt/floppy
Sun Sep 04 09:08:31
/home/skippi
root $ cd /mnt/floppy/
Sun Sep 04 09:08:36
/mnt/floppy
root $ ls
Sun Sep 04 09:08:46
/mnt/floppy
root $ du
1.0K.
1.0Ktotal
Sun Sep 04 09:08:59
/mnt/floppy
root $
Simply a bad drive? I have tried numerous floppy disk, and they can't
all be bad. Any other ideas for troubleshooting?
Thank you very much.
Adrian
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