Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Rankin <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18 floppy driver EATS floppies | Date | Sun, 5 May 2002 15:47:06 +0100 (BST) |
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> I buyed once (a long time ago) a box with 10 floppies. > Two died in the first day of use. From the others i still have some today. > > I think the quality of the floppies (and other products) today isn't so > high :-(
Well, that's one explanation. Curiously, I've just managed to salvage my floppy disk. My initial attempt to run either "mkfs -t vfat" or "dd if=mini.ima of=/dev/fd0" failed, so I ran "mkfs -t ext2" instead. Once that ran successfully, I was able to dd the image again, and this time it worked.
Sounds like either a floppy driver bug or a vfat filesystem bug to me.
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