Is your floppy drive an ide floppy drive i.e. superfloppy or is it the regular 34-wire one connected to a floppy controller? If the drive s hows up in dmesg as fd0 it is regular; if it shows as hdx it is an atapi floppy. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:30:25PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Greg. I'll look into that, but it has happened with multiple disks that > I have tried. In fact what I did was try and a superformat on the disk and > not even that worked. So the kernel is probably not accessing the drive > properly, or its using a different device. Any other ideas on why this > could be happening? It works just fine with 2.2, or it did before I > upgraded. > > Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
