Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:20:36 -0500 (EST) | From | "D. Chiodo" <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.25 tells me "floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request" |
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> > felix root ~# fdformat /dev/fd1h1440; dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/disk; dd if=/tmp/disk of=/dev/fd1h1440 > > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. > > Formatting ... done > > Verifying ... done > > floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request > > 2880+0 records in > > 2880+0 records out > > 2880+0 records in > > 2880+0 records out > > > > Copied 3 floppys this way, and got this message two times. > > > > Gerd > > > > -- > > Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> | http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/ > > > > Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels. > > > > Hmm.. you're making an image copy of a 1.44MB disk > onto a 1.2MB disk.
HUH? Where did you get this? "fd1h1440" is a 1.4M floppy, which gets formatted and verified properly.. What makes you think its a 1.2M?
I'd suggest doing directly from fd0 to fd0 with dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1.. I'd also suggest adding "bs=9k" parameter to dd..
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