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 1ECEXj-0003Pz-Tp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:49:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85AiOsI028094; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:44:24 GMT Received: from lmfilto03.st1.spray.net (lmfilto03.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.217]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85AbhkN030380 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:37:43 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto03.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464C22642E4 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net ([212.78.203.82]) by localhost (lmfilto03.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13987-01 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0508F10D68B for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=slXjKhYlTTgPCdIyQQnn4n0FxL1Gcw/Y7n0FUMglBlK01l9s4MvWETKhEqA6xYol5yd66s6WMJSjs8/B/VNr7lZ71q9aAm755x01P1NWpadI9Oad2yd/5Qy0enpnSxaCnkQoCMVWJdRxBX4l5Yx9NQB7ckkKbrIU9o2pGXEG5Yk=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:40:41 +0100 Message-ID: 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-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20050904091352.00626701@gentoo-00> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: 4c7f7720-b64f-4f41-8068-6752e7072c05 X-Archives-Hash: 5a0ebd8f820eba013944e5adb946b1a1 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 > > > -- > 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 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list