Did you try using another floppy disk? It could be that you have a bad disk. I had this once, and it turned out that the disk was bad. Greg On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:10:15PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I am experiencing this peculiar problem when trying to mount my > fd0. The drive will seemingly be accessed for a period of about 2-3 secs, > then I get floppy 0: probe failed. I then have no choice but to kill the > process. I do have blk_dev_fd set to y, and config_idefloppy=y as well. > The floppy drive worked fine with the 2.2 kernel I had so long ago. > Possibly /dev/fd0 in 2.2 was a symlink to a device which is no longer used > in 2.4? Not sure. I have neglected to fix this for a while since I didn't > think I would use that drive very much, and I just wanted to look at the > contents of one of my disks without having to resort to Winblows to do so. > Thanks! > > Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
