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

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Feb 26 2010 - 00:27:59 EST

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Pete Theisen wrote:

> Ron Youvan wrote:
>> Hi Pete Theisen:
>>
>> Any comment with a fd0 and or fd1 (for floppy drive/disk) or the word "
>> floppy "
>> the name of the driver for floppy drives.
>
> Oh, here's some more:
>
> [1688363.991145] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

Not a floppy, unless you have a SCSI floppy, but then it might not be called
floppy0.

> [1748261.101347] floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748261.301440] floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748261.301461] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
> [1748261.901755] floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748262.094330] floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748262.094350] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
> [1748262.094361] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> [1748263.102420] floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748263.302521] floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> [1748263.302543] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
> [1748263.302557] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
>
> Bad disk? or unformatted?

Errors indicate bad disk to me, but you should try formatting it and see
what you get. There's two steps -- fdformat (low-level format) and then
mkfs. If you're a real wiz (and/or the a floppy costs more than the time to
figure it out) I think there's a way to map out bad blocks. 

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