[ale] floppy problem

[yqrsdjl at snt.bellsouth.com (Sunil Patel)]

I now can format floppy disk with verify option off on fdformat.  The default verify
on use to lock up the system.  I can now do mkfs, mount and ls -al as well. However,
my problem is still dd.  I also tried the copy command but it hangs the system as
well.  I just can't copy anything to floppy.


Sunil Patel wrote:

> I have a weird problem with my floppy drive under Red Hat 6.0.
> Everything seems to lock up when I am using Mount, or fdformat, or mkfs,
> or dd  command on this floppy drive.  The drive light stays green and
> you can not do anything with machine ( mouse, keyboard, etc...).  I
> first thought that it might be the drive that is going bad but it seems
> to do the same thing when I swaped it out with  my old 386 machine's
> floppy drive.  I also try re-creating the device files by using MAKEDEV
> under /dev directory.  That did not help either.  does anyone have this
> same problem.  Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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> Thanks
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> Sunil Patel
> email: yqrsdjl at snt.bellsouth.com