From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 21:32:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205060132.g461WK0M005770@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 May 2002 15:47:06 BST." <200205051447.g45El62s000615@twopit.underworld>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-06 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-05 13:17 Chris Rankin
2002-05-05 13:26 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-05-05 13:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-05 13:58 ` Sebastian Szonyi
2002-05-05 14:47 ` Chris Rankin
2002-05-06 1:32 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2002-05-06 6:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-05-06 18:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-06 18:18 ` Diego Calleja
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2002-05-05 16:50 ` Barry K. Nathan
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