Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu GUI (Gnome) can't write to floppy

From: Pete Theisen (petetheisen@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 25 2010 - 16:52:19 EST


Ron Youvan wrote:
>> I have Ubuntu 9.04. I find it much more cantankerous than MEPIS. In
>> MEPIS I could copy/paste drag/drop from folders to floppy and vice versa.
>
>> With Ubuntu I can't use the built-in floppy at all. I can read and
>> copy from a USB floppy to the hard disk but not the other way. When
>> there is a blank disk in the USB floppy I cannot paste the files I
>> just copied from the other floppy onto the blank one.
>
> I tried Ubuntu and Kbuntu, I stay with Slackware, so I guess.
>
> In a console when you <enter> "dmesg | less" do you get boot information?
> If so, can you find where the floppy device/s are recognized? Is it
> being mounted ro (read only) by any chance? (it should be scrollable)

Hi Ron,

It is written in geek, thus:

[1748925.385913] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[1748925.385926] sdb:<3>ldm_parse_privhead(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD
structure. LDM database is corrupt. Aborting.
[1748925.513912] ldm_validate_privheads(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD 1.
[1748925.513921]
[1749146.028076] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sdb
[1749161.513900] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.47
MB/1.40 MiB)
[1749161.641866] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[1749161.641874] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 46 94 00
[1749161.641878] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[1749161.897853] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.47
MB/1.40 MiB)
[1749162.025808] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[1749162.025816] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 46 94 00
[1749162.025821] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[1749162.025835] sdb:<3>ldm_parse_privhead(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD
structure. LDM database is corrupt. Aborting.
[1749162.153826] ldm_validate_privheads(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD 1.
[1749162.153835]
[1749313.876050] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[1752302.080376] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sdb
[1752951.464077] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
(END)

(pages and pages of that) What am I looking for?

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