Re: Hard crashes with floppy access

2006-05-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This afternoon I experienced two hard crashes while accessing my floppy drive. Mounting seemed to work OK, then I tried to copy a file (~24K) to the disk and then nothing, having to go for the Reset button. The first time this

Re: Hard crashes with floppy access

2006-05-18 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
Well, I that was my first thought also. The first one was quite an old disk, but it worked on this very same machine, in fact it was formatted (granted, a very long time ago) on this machine under 6.0. The other disk was brand-new, and it works on one of my other PCs, running 5.5-PRE. I know this

Hard crashes with floppy access

2006-05-17 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
This afternoon I experienced two hard crashes while accessing my floppy drive. Mounting seemed to work OK, then I tried to copy a file (~24K) to the disk and then nothing, having to go for the Reset button. The first time this happened under X, the second time on a terminal. I have no idea when