Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:12:07 -0400 | From | Russell Berry <> | Subject | Re: floppy death |
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Russell Berry wrote:
> > Here it is, upon trying to mount my ext2fs floppy, I get this: > > # mount /dev/fd1 /floppy -text2 > mount: /dev/fd1 is not a valid block device > > then I look at /var/log/syslog and see this: > > Jul 30 12:10:02 seinfeld kernel: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory > > just for the heck of it, I fired up dosemu, put in a dos floppy and did a:, which led to this: > > ERROR: Sector not found 1! > SYSCALL ERROR: 6, *No such device or address* in file disks.c, line 581: expr= > open(dp->dev_name, dp->wantrdonly ? O_RDONLY : O_RDWR, 0) > DISK: closed disk [snip] > > Okay, a little overkill there, but I didn't include all of them. My next step is to reboot and see > if that clears it up, here's the setup... > > # cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.0.8 (root@seinfeld) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Mon Jul 22 12:43:50 EDT 1996 > # uptime > 12:15pm up 7 days, 20:52, 7 users, load average: 0.06, 0.11, 0.14 > > Any ideas?????
Just after posting this, I backed out of X to prepare for reboot, and tried again mounting the floppy. It worked. :-) Now I can umount the floppy, and mount again in X, I'm not quite sure what happened there, but it seems to ba an anomaly...
---russ
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