Re: [SLUG] Floppy Drive woes - more info

From: Russ Wright (rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 16:18:41 EDT


Did some digging out on Bugzilla.redhat.com.
This might be a bug. grrrrrrr.

Any suggestions for another distro?
<Steps back and puts on flame-retardant suit>

Russ

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 16:04, Russ Wright wrote:
> 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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