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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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