Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:18:33 -0800 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com> Message-ID: <20001127151833.A25268@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Floppy: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
* Thomas Weiler <thweiler@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> [001127 08:48]:
> I've got a SPARCStation Voyager (sun4m).
> When I try to mount a floppy (fat, vfat, ext2) I've got the following
> error message:
>
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> In /var/log/messages the following lines are found:
>
> kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
>
> I compiled a new kernel (2.2.16, 2.2.17, 2.4.0-test11) with fat, vfat,
> umsdos and msdos support (according to a former posted message about
> that problem) but allways with the same result.
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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