From: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de (Andreas Busse) Subject: Re: ``Reset-floppy called'' killed my system (0.99.8) Date: 30 Jun 1993 12:17:53 GMT
In article <1993Jun25.011658.135@excaliber.uucp>, joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
|> Something happened with the floppies; I don't know what. First I
|> tried to write to B: with no disk in there, but I managed to kill the
|> offending process (why is so hard to kill processes that are stuck
|> dealing will ill-prepared floppies?). But then when I tried to write
|> to A: (which >did< have a disk in it) I got an endless stream of
|> ``reset-floppy called'' messages, which followed me around from
|> VC to VC.
|>
|> First, there's a bug somewhere (I know that's not real helpful)
|> because accessing A: should have worked.
|>
|> And second, it seems to me that after a certain amount of floppy
|> resets the kernel should just give up, or at least let the offending
|> process die a peaceful death.
|>
|> Finally, why do these messages appear on every VC? In
|> /etc/syslog.conf, I (thought I had) instructed the messages only to
|> appear on tty8.
|>
|> -Joel
|> (joel@wam.umd.edu)
|> --
Sorry, what is A: and B: under Linux ?????
Do you still think in messy-DOS ?
Or do you talk about mtools ?
However:
1) What you call A: is /dev/fd0, B: is /dev/fd1.
2) Disks have to be formatted:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (for a 3.5" HD Drive) will do the job (must be root)
3) If you want to have msdos-formatted disk, type
mformat a: (or b:)
4) If you want to have a Minix filesystem on these disks, type
mkfs /dev/fd0 (or /dev/fd1) <number of blocks>,
where number of blocks is 1440 for 3.5" HD.
5) If you want to tar to or from the floppy, type
tar xvf /dev/fd0 or tar cvf /dev/fd0 <files>
6) If still something's going wrong, just pull out the floppy. The error
messages will stop after a while !
Everything clear ?
Andy