Floppy drive weird behaviour. Hoary.

[Jenny Drake]

Thanks Norman, 
	That did the trick. 
Stick floppy in drive, it gets auto mounted.
$ umount /media/floppy
Run the floppy formatter,
$ mount /media/floppy
Floppy disks now readable, writable etc. 

Jen

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:59 +0100, Jenny Drake wrote:
> Some more information. 
> I tried directly writing an old Debian boot floppy image I had onto one
> of the disks that had given an "Error formatting track #0" message with
> the Floppy Formatter gui. Using the command dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
> bs=1k this wrote fine. This suggests that the disks and the drive are
> OK, leaving a possible problem with the mounting of the floppy drive.
> Any clues how to track this down further? 
> 
> Jenny

The only thing I have noticed is that if you try to format a mounted
disk an error message occurs. So, make sure the disk to be formatted is
not mounted. Any help?

Norman
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