I know the floppy is an old media, however, thats the easiest/cheapest way for me to transfer files from home to work, especially when the file is 640k. Anyway, if I take disk preformatted for dos I can copy files to it. however, if I try to format a disk either with Kfloppy or Floppy Formatter it just doesn't work. My syslog shows errors like this:
Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6) Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6) Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0. The desktop shows the little triangle on the floppy icon which I assume means its mounted, however, running as root, # umount /dev/fd0 tells me the device is not mounted. Apparently the disk is not being formatted. I figure that if I can copy a file to a preformatted disk then the drive is ok, or is that a misconception? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 17:27:58 up 10 days, 20:05, 2 users, load average: 1.34, 0.74, 0.59 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Live - Classic Rock - From Virgin Radio UK The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun -
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