> When I use "mke2fs /dev/fd0u1722" to create floppyies I get lots of > error messages of the form > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:3c (floppy), Sector 3380
Um, did you low-level format them first? You have to do something like "fdformat /dev/fd0u1722" *first* to write the low-level format, to actually put the gaps and tracks and syncs and sectors and checksums and whatever is part of a low-level floppy format. The mke2fs command only lays down the logical filesystem format, it has to be low-level formatted first... -Tom
