Re: floppy woes

1998-05-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 16 May 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I wrote: > > > > > > Question: is there a way to hard-reset the floppy drive and driver > > > under linux, without rebooting? > > > > I just take the disk out. > > So do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that h

Re: floppy woes

1998-05-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Lindsay Allen wrote: > I wrote: > > > > Question: is there a way to hard-reset the floppy drive and driver > > under linux, without rebooting? > > I just take the disk out. So do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that he can start over again :(. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: floppy woes

1998-05-16 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Fri, 15 May 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems with a floppy drive. Basicly it won't write > properly on any floppy disk that hasn't been formatted in that drive. > Preformatted floppies screw up. The problem is, that often after a > failed attempt to read or wri

floppy woes

1998-05-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I am having problems with a floppy drive. Basicly it won't write properly on any floppy disk that hasn't been formatted in that drive. Preformatted floppies screw up. The problem is, that often after a failed attempt to read or write from the drive, the only way to be able to use the floppy