Message-ID: <3A2B498E.6D817018@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 08:36:46 +0100 From: Thomas Weiler <thweiler@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: floppy: I/O error
Hi!
I'm still trying to get my floppy work under SuSE 7.0 on a SparcStation
Voyager.
When I try to mount a floppy I get the error message:
kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
Compiling the kernel myself didn't help...
I am able to boot from floppy (Joshua Uziel's "new" one...).
But after Booting my existing Installation I am not able to mount a
floppy
(ext2, fat, vfat,...).
Any suggestions?
Thomas
> Joshua Uziel wrote:
>
> Well, you don't need the umsdos support... but under "Floppy, IDE, and
> other block devices" which has a "Normal floppy disk support" option I'm
> assuming you selected. Another thing to check would be if your /dev/fd0
> device file looks correct. Finally, I don't know of other people using
> a Voyager, so I don't know if that has anything special about it's
> floppy drive (though I suspect not... but that machine is a bit
> special).
>
> > The floppy device seems to be physically ok: I could boot from
> > (Redhat...) Installation-Floppy (because SuSE's installation floppy
> > didn't work on my machine -> bad magic number).
>
> There's a fixed SuSE boot floppy I've put in http://suse.com/~uzi/sparc/
> that you can download and test with. Funny that I was gonna suggest it
> possibly being a bad disk drive (since while I made that boot floppy, I
> had nothing but problems until I figured out that my test machine had a
> bad floppy drive in it).
>
> > Does anybody have an idea, how to fix this problem?
>
> Try and test those suggestions... if nothing else, we'll look into it
> more.
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