Re: [SLUG] Floppy Drive woes - more info

From: Russ Wright (rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 10:20:50 EDT


More info

my fstab entry :

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 08:56, Russ Wright wrote:
> Hey all
>
> I just convinced my parents to try Linux on one of their laptops. So I
> loaded their Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS with Redhat 8.0. The
> installation recognized nearly everything and it only required a few
> tweaks to get the sound going.
>
> Now the problem. The floppy drive. For some reason it will not work. I
> can mount a disk *sometimes* but I cannot copy from or write to it. The
> copy fails with an I/O error.
>
> At first I thought it was the floppy but I can boot the system with a
> DOS boot disk and it works like a charm. I can copy and perform all
> standard floppy functions. But once I boot Linux the floppy does not
> work properly.
>
> HELP!!! Or I'll have to reload Windoze for them... ugh.
>
> Regards
> Russ

-- 
Russ Wright <rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com>



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