Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies | Date | Sun, 5 May 2002 09:50:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | (Barry K. Nathan) |
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> I am discovering that any floppy disks that I try to use under Linux > don't last very long. This seems to be true with both my UP and SMP > machines, neither of which has ever used its floppy drive enough for > me to believe that the hardware is reaching the end of its life.
Make sure the boot-time floppy seek option is enabled in your BIOS. While it shouldn't be necessary nowadays in theory, I've seen some motherboard/(1.44MB 3.5") floppy drive combinations that require it to be enabled for the floppy drive to work with any level of consistency.
Also, if a particular disk is acting really strange, try ejecting it, reinserting it, and trying again.
Both of these pieces of advice apply to Windows as well as Linux, FWIW.
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