-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:01 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies Nigel Kendrick wrote: > So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could be a > set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but I thought > I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it! As always: Logfile excerpts could have been a great help. Also dmesg probably has to say something about that >:) Ralph Oh yes, dmesg is very verbose: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Logfile is a little more specific - but not conclusive (apart from the fact that something's not right) - here's up to when I plugged in and used the USB floppy: Jun 19 11:21:51 data01 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 19 11:22:14 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:22:14 data01 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 19 11:22:32 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:22:51 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2 Jun 19 11:27:24 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:27:39 data01 kernel: floppy0: -- FDC reply errorend_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 19 11:43:22 data01 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jun 19 11:54:01 data01 kernel: sdd:<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jun 19 15:03:14 data01 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M