First, try kep in a non volatile file all data about it !!!! Try to see all files relatives to log any action done by the kernel. This is in /etc/syslog.conf, at his point, you must find out any entry like : kern.* /dev/console
and insert down a line as : kern.* /my_log_file .... that's for capture in a file all log about it !!!!! Of course, any error about floppy will be catch here too !!! Second !!!! the most important !! NEVER get out a flopppy before umount it !!!!! From: "Hidong Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Red Hat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 1:23 AM Subject: floppy error > Hi, > > I'm seeing a whole bunch of error messages like this in my > /var/log/messages: > > Jan 20 22:18:32 ripley kernel: floppy0: disk absent or changed during > operation > Jan 20 22:18:32 ripley kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 > (floppy), sector 6 > > > What does this mean? Could this be related to why I can't start Samba? > Samba was running fine until I had to reboot the machine today (Red Hat > 7.2). Now I can't restart Samba. Thanks, > > > > Hidong > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list