From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBwMy-0000A5-B7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 15:25:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j84FLT5g012499; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:21:29 GMT Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j84FHfJD021095 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:17:41 GMT Received: from lamar.ColoState.EDU (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j84FKdI164760 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:20:39 -0600 Received: from gentoo-00 (dialup0191.ppp.colostate.edu [129.82.53.35]) by lamar.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j84FKbq1409386 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:20:37 -0600 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:13:52 -0600 From: Adrian To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files Message-ID: <20050904091352.00626701@gentoo-00> Organization: On The Fly Photography X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1773d354-d3ee-4cf4-bafb-8c935305f84c X-Archives-Hash: 8992cfb95a2ff4ab5a24b07dbd3968d2 Something odd is going on with my floppy drive, maybe it's just a hardware problem? In the first example you will see that I can format a floppy, mount it, but then I can not copy any files to it. ---------------------------------------------example---------------- Sun Sep 04 09:02:16 /home/skippi root $ mke2fs /dev/fd0 mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. Sun Sep 04 09:03:18 /home/skippi root $ mkdir /floppy Sun Sep 04 09:03:40 /home/skippi root $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Sun Sep 04 09:03:56 /home/skippi root $ mkdir -p /floppy/boot/grub mkdir: cannot create directory `/floppy/boot': Input/output error ----------------------------------------------------- now here, I mount my GRUB floppy, which has files on it, since I used this to boot my computer, yet I can't actually see any of the files. --------------------------------another example-------------- Sun Sep 04 09:08:06 /home/skippi root $ mount /mnt/floppy/ Sun Sep 04 09:08:26 /home/skippi root $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 11718996 6638084 5080912 57% / /dev/hde9 266180800 232401964 33778836 88% /home /dev/fd0 1412 158 1182 12% /mnt/floppy Sun Sep 04 09:08:31 /home/skippi root $ cd /mnt/floppy/ Sun Sep 04 09:08:36 /mnt/floppy root $ ls Sun Sep 04 09:08:46 /mnt/floppy root $ du 1.0K . 1.0K total Sun Sep 04 09:08:59 /mnt/floppy root $ Simply a bad drive? I have tried numerous floppy disk, and they can't all be bad. Any other ideas for troubleshooting? Thank you very much. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm The Cynical Libertarian Society: http://www.204EastSouth.com/cls -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list