Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies | Date | Sun, 05 May 2002 21:32:20 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com> said: > "Sebastian Szonyi" at May 05, 2002 04:58:50 PM > > I buyed once (a long time ago) a box with 10 floppies. > > Two died in the first day of use. From the others i still have some today. > > > > I think the quality of the floppies (and other products) today isn't so > > high :-( > > Well, that's one explanation. Curiously, I've just managed to salvage > my floppy disk. My initial attempt to run either "mkfs -t vfat" or "dd > if=mini.ima of=/dev/fd0" failed, so I ran "mkfs -t ext2" instead. Once > that ran successfully, I was able to dd the image again, and this time > it worked.
That cleaned the heads, and now it works. Happened to me too on the (little used) fd of my notebook. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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