[wplug] Floppy Drive Problems

[Bryon Gill]

Have you tried this with a known working floppy disk?  This sounds a lot 
like the sort of problems I get when I try to read a bad floppy.

Bryguy

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Gentgeen wrote:

> I am having some weird behavior with my floppy drive and was hoping someone could help me out.
> 
> If I open a terminal and try to mount the drive I get the following:
> 
> 	# mount /floppy/
> 	/dev/fd0: Input/output error
> 	mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> 	/dev/fd0: Input/output error
> 	mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> When I go to check the log (/var/log/syslog) I see the following:
> 
> 	------ SYSLOG OUTPUT BEGIN ---------------------------------------
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: floppy driver state
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: -------------------
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: now=16748351 last interrupt=28638 diff=16719713 last called handler=0000
> 	0000
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: timeout_message=redo fd request
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: last output bytes:
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  8 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox last message repeated 3 times
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  8 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  8 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  8 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  e 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 13 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  0 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 1a 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  0 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 12 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  0 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 14 90 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 18 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel:  8 80 439
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox last message repeated 3 times
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: last result at 440
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: last redo_fd_request at 16748051
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: status=ff
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: fdc_busy=1
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c01c9d7c
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: cont=c033539c
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: CURRENT=c136aa40
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: command_status=-1
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: 
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> 	Feb 12 22:04:22 linuxbox kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
> 	------ SYSLOG OUTPUT END  ----------------------------------------
> 
> And that output is repeated at least a dozen time in the log after just one try at mounting the floppy drive.
> 
> The drive works fine when I use it to boot from, it also works fine when I am working in Windows 98.
> 
> I have done some major "googling", but with no luck.  I did find a few German sites that might have helped, but I don't read German very well.
> 
> I'm running Debian Woody with kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4  Hopefully someone will have some ideas of where I could look for the trouble, cause I'm all out.
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