Re: [SLUG] Floppy troubles

From: Bill Ehlert (Ehlerts@SoftHome.net)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 09:22:53 EDT


Hi Paul,

1. Are you unmounting each floppy before removing it from computer? (data
buffers are written to floppy and flushed on unmount )

2. Does floppy read okay on computer that created it? (use creator to vefify
data and alignment check)

Good luck,
Mr. Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Floppy troubles

| SLUGs:
|
| I'm transferring files between home and work on floppies. Both machines
| are Linux (Red Hat and Debian). I'm getting sporadic I/O errors on
| pretty much all my floppies (brand new). I assume this means one or both
| drives are out of alignment or screwed up in some way. Anyone know of a
| command or something that will tell me _which_ one is screwing up?
|
| Paul



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