[CentOS] Re: Mounting Floppies - Results of Knoppix test

[Nigel Kendrick]

Booted Knoppix 5.10 - OK
Mounted floppy - OK
Formatted floppy - OK
Wrote 850K text file to floppy - OK
Read floppy in PC running Vis...er...another OS - OK
Booted server back to CentOS 5.1 - OK
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ...

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

less /var/log/messages:

Jun 23 14:49:05 data01 kernel: floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
Jun 23 14:49:05 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorfloppy0: probe
failed...
Jun 23 14:49:06 data01 kernel: floppy0: unexpected interrupt 
Jun 23 14:49:06 data01 kernel: floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
Jun 23 14:49:06 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O
error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 23 14:49:07 data01 kernel: floppy0: unexpected interrupt 
Jun 23 14:49:07 data01 kernel: floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
Jun 23 14:49:09 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorfloppy0:
unexpected interrupt 
Jun 23 14:49:09 data01 kernel: floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
[Snip]
Jun 23 14:49:22 data01 kernel: hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock

This server is running 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen

But I am getting the same on a 'straight' server running 2.6.18-53.el5

To be honest I'm not going to pursue this as the need for floppies is very
small and the USB one works, but this may be of use to others or someone
closer to the OS may want to take a look?