From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWm5Z-0007lT-HO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:27:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EA90E02B6; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from md2.t-2.net (md2.t-2.net [84.255.209.81]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38639E02B6 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (84-255-203-94.static.t-2.net [84.255.203.94]) by md2.t-2.net (MOS 3.10.2-GA) with ESMTP id DIE32456; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:27:12 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49912C33.3070307@avtomatika.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:26:43 +0100 From: Branko Badrljica User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090130) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Can't format floppy or write to it... References: <20090130134224.GA24643@nibiru.local> <200902091437.59281.vapier@gentoo.org> <200902092222.45766.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200902092222.45766.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/150, host=md2.t-2.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0204.49911E41.002E,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=192.168.0.11, so=2008-08-01 02:07:42, dmn=5.7.1/2008-09-02, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false X-Archives-Salt: 814adc83-2219-4f35-abcd-662fde7372d2 X-Archives-Hash: 3714fcf81c8b91c3ecb71caae7dd4fef I needed to make bootable floppy for graphic card BIOS reflash and noticed that I can't fdformat floppy or even write to formatted one. I can mount it -o rw, but when I try to write, write would fail. Also, "fdformat /dev/fd0" seems to be working, but just to the point,where it verifies written and fails on track 0. I have checked: - floppies for write protection ( it was off ) - for dirt on heads- I have cleaned floppy thoroughly - bad unit. Exchanged it with another, with exactly same result. - bad floppy disk. Tried a few other, with same result. Same disks formatted on another Windoze machine just fine. - bad access flags on /dev/fd0. (" Access: (0660/brw-rw----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 11/ floppy)" ) Here is output of "fdformat /dev/fd0": >LANG="en" fdformat /dev/fd0 >Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. >Formatting ... done >Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 2048 and here is dmesg | tail: > > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 32 > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 288 > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 36 > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 308 > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 38 > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 333 > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 41 > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 45 > Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 5 Machine: Phenom 9950 Boartd Foxconn A7DA-S 8 Gig RAM. nVidia 8800GT with 1GiG RAM DDR3 DVD+ RW unit floppy 2x 500 Gb HDD SATA Gentoo 64-bit ( 2008.0-desktop profile ) pretty much latest version of everything kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r1 Has anyone noticed anything remotely similar ? I can recall being able to use floppy normally with older 2.6.27 kernels, but can't try this now... Regards, Branko