I think it must be the floppy drive, or the controller. I did, indeed, forget about the mount/unmount business. But I rebuild a brand new STN disk and without yanking it out, it has come up with these errors twice so far since yesterday. There is a couple of interesting messages I see on occassion: bread in fat_access failed and fat_free: skipped EOF I guess some programmer was dieting when he wrote these error messages :) Cheers, Carl > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 05:07:42 -0500 > From: john burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [ShareTheNet] Floppy problems? > > > 1. Don't remove your floppy without re-booting the STN box. Unix (linux) > doesn't like you to remove a device without "unmounting" it, and there is > no way to do that in STN without going in thru the console and specifically > 'umounting' your floppy device. > > 2. You may have a floppy going bad. > > --==jb==-- > > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > john burton > Midwest City, Oklahoma > > > -----Original Message----- > From: C Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 21:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ShareTheNet] Floppy problems? > > Can anybody tell me what is going on? Every few days I have to reboot my > STN > box because I start getting weird errors like the following: > > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 21 (then sector 2630) > attempt to access beyond end of device > 02:00: rw=0, want=11, limit=4 (several of these, then want=9, then > want=1316) > dev = 02:00, ino = 352 > Kernel panic: msdos_write_inode: unable to read i-node block > > Once I start getting this, before long the firewall is no longer handing > out > DHCP messages and eventually everybody drops off the net till I reboot. > What > is going on? > > Cheers, > Carl > --- Sponsor's Message -------------------------------------- Tired of affiliate program hype? Want to keep the commission on every sale, every time GUARANTEED? Maybe it�s time to build a Vstore at: http://click.topica.com/aaaankbz8Rp2bAfyICc/VStoreWebDev ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Visit http://www.ShareTheNet.com for info about ShareTheNet Visit http://www.topica.com/lists/sharethenet for info about this list ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
