Re: [SLUG] Floppy Drive woes - more info

From: Russ Wright (rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 16:04:33 EDT


Okay I added floppy=thinkpad.

now I get a different message

Whenever I attempt a mount:

# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Now I get: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

hmmmmmm

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:00, jeff wrote:
> >
> This is looking an awful lot like the problem some of the Thinkpads had
> with the floppy. On the "afflicted" (for lack of a better term) models,
> one had to specify a switch at boot to have a working floppy. It was
> something to the effect of "floppy=thinkpad" on those models. Maybe
> there is a similar issue/solution with the Toshiba?
>
> Jeff

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Russ Wright <rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com>



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