LeRoy D. Cressy on Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:06:36 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Floppy drive woes...


David L. Martin wrote:
> 
> While trying to make a new boot disk for another PC, I popped a floppy out
> of the drive while it was still mounted.  Now "mount" always shows the
> drive busy, and "dd" always shows it full.  Even HARD and SOFT reboots
> don't fix it, yet the drive continues to function fine in DOS.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue?

Hi David,

Well ... There are a couple of things that you might try,

What does the boot mesages say concerning the floppy drive?

~/$ dmesg | grep Floppy
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

    -and -

~/$ dmesg | grep FDC   
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

if the floppy checks out from the boot messages, then try remounting the
floppy drive.

~/# mount -o remount,rw -t msdos /dev/fd0
~/# mount -o remount,rw -t minix /dev/fd0

The two above examples are for either a dos or a minix floppy.  

If none of these work, try using the mcommands.

mformat a:
mcopy

and see if they work

I have never came upon a situation where a reboot would not solve the
problem

Hope these ideas work

LeRoy
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