Stephen wrote:
Happy New Year !
I did something stupid, when tired and working as root.
What did you do?
I'm now getting
this error when attempting to mount/read a floppy;
"Inappropriate ioctl for device"
running 'hdparm -Tt /dev/fd0' returns the following;
/dev/fd0:
rea
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > But when I tried
> > ls /dev/fd0
> > it told me
> >
> > ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
> >
> > Indeed, ls /dev says
> >
> [ its not there ]
>
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But when I tried
> ls /dev/fd0
> it told me
>
> ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
>
> Indeed, ls /dev says
>
[ its not there ]
> Where is my floppy drive?
>
Are you running a plain /dev/ or do you use udev or de
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 07:53:11PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I'm trying to make the "base" disks to do a potato install.
>
> When I do a "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0," I get the following:
>
> dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> 1113+0 records in
> 1112+0 records out
>
> And again
Subject: /dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)
Date: Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 07:53:11PM -0600
In reply to:Matt Garman
Quoting Matt Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>|
>| Hello:
>|
>| I'm trying to make the "base" disks to do a potato install.
>|
>| When I do a "dd if=root.bi
On 21/12/99 Matt Garman wrote:
I'm trying to make the "base" disks to do a potato install.
When I do a "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0," I get the following:
dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
1113+0 records in
1112+0 records out
looks like a disk error prevented the copy from completing
And aga
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Paul wrote:
> I`ve tried looking for "makedev" which dselect tells me is installed but
> all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files.
Makedev the binary (actually it's a script) is in /dev.
As a quick fix, you can do (as root):
mknod -m 664 /dev/f
> From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ... I managed to "rm /dev/fd0". Now although
> "locate" still shows it as existing ...
Remember that locate displays only cached information.
Daniel
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files.
> How do I restore my floppy drive?
Ooops!
I meant:
./MAKEDEV fd0
Sorry
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> I`ve tried looking for "makedev" which dselect tells me is installed but
> all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files.
> How do I restore my floppy drive?
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV fd
This should create the symlinks.
On 29-Dec-98 Brent Hueth wrote:
>
> I can't seem to get my floppy drive to work under Debian. For example,
> when trying to format a disk with:
>
> superformat /dev/fd0 hd sect=18
>
Try something like mkfs.
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