Floppy drive not responding.

[Bill Marcum]

On 2009-06-26, HermanAA <hermanaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:44 +0200, Brummelen, M. van (ICT) wrote:
>> dmesg |grep fd[0-9]
>
> n0jn at bsw:~$ dmesg |grep fd[0-9]
> [    0.602400] PCI: bridge 0000:00:03.0 32bit mmio: [dfd00000, dfdfffff]
> [    0.721874] pci 0000:00:03.0:   MEM window: 0xdfd00000-0xdfdfffff
> [    0.722008] bus: 03 index 1 mmio: [dfd00000, dfdfffff]
> [    2.282533] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> [ 3741.127459] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 3753.937802] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 3766.748172] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 3766.748183] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> [ 3828.007824] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7027.440040] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7027.464040] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7080.780040] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7080.804530] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7098.564540] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [ 7098.588036] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

Looks like either the disk is corrupt or the drive is malfunctioning.

> n0jn at bsw:~$ 
>
> seems even my Evolution gets confused .... (it only showed
>  the above quoted part after hitting REPLY:
>  Maybe Evolution prefers reading top-to-bottom .......
>
> Herman in PHL.
>