Re: floppy disk hardware failure ?

2003-05-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a hardware problem? I get the same thing with all disks I have tried. Yes, probably. I'm guessing it's an MS-DOS type floppy, being mounted with mount -t msdos. You might try the mtools, which parse the filesystem a little differently, but it's

Re: floppy disk hardware failure ?

2003-05-30 Thread Lee Harr
May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:22:46 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0

floppy disk hardware failure ?

2003-05-29 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; Recently, trying to use my floppy disk drive, I started getting messages like this: May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0