From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 10:47:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 10:47:08 -0400 Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.45]:41885 "EHLO mta05-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 10:47:07 -0400 From: Chris Rankin Message-Id: <200205051447.g45El62s000615@twopit.underworld> Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies To: sony@faraday.ee.utt.ro (Sebastian Szonyi) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:47:06 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Sebastian Szonyi" at May 05, 2002 04:58:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. Sounds like either a floppy driver bug or a vfat filesystem bug to me. Chris