[gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files

[gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files

[Adrian]

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


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RE: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files

[Michael Kintzios]

Try:

# ls -la

after you cd into it.  The files you have saved on your fd0 may be
system directories/files i.e. they may have a . before the
file/directory name.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian [mailto:linuxgn2@204eastsouth.com] 
> Sent: 04 September 2005 16:14
> 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
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files

[Adrian]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:40:41 +0100
"Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote the words:

> Try:
> 
> # ls -la
> 
> after you cd into it.  The files you have saved on your fd0 may be
> system directories/files i.e. they may have a . before the
> file/directory name.
> 


Thanks -- but I figured it out.  It was nothing other than a issue with
my fstab having something in there that wasn't needed & causing
problems.  I should have thought of that before posting.

But thanks again.

Adrian
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