Nigel Kendrick wrote: > -----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 You've tried replacing the drive, and the disk works in your USB floppy drive, so about all that's left are the cable and the floppy controller on the motherboard. Probably not much you can do about the latter. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.