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Suse Floppy not available
Post 38323 by Sonshyne5 on Saturday 12th of July 2003 11:16:11 AM
07-12-2003
Suse Floppy not available
HI, I installed Suse 8.1 on an Emachine with a Cyrix processor equivelent to Pentium II. The dmesg reveals that the floppy was recognised, and there is an icon on the desktop for it, but when I trey to access it, it is not available.
If I access it from a terminal window, the error I get is: first that the floppy is read only, and then it tries to mount the disk read only, but gives an error message that says there were in/out errors, and returns me to the prompt. the floppy light never comes on at all. The system log reveals the following:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: last redo_fd_request at 2069607
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: status=ff
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c01d8790
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: cont=c02e2650
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: CURRENT=c1378920
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: -------------------
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: now=2070207 last interrupt=2067198 diff=3009 last called handler=00000000
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: timeout_message=redo fd request
Any ideas? The floppy works find in Windows.
Sonshyne5
Dave
If I access it from a terminal window, the error I get is: first that the floppy is read only, and then it tries to mount the disk read only, but gives an error message that says there were in/out errors, and returns me to the prompt. the floppy light never comes on at all. The system log reveals the following:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: last redo_fd_request at 2069607
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: status=ff
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: DEVICE_INTR=c01d8790
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: cont=c02e2650
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: CURRENT=c1378920
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 11 23:59:50 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel:
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: -------------------
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: now=2070207 last interrupt=2067198 diff=3009 last called handler=00000000
Jul 11 23:59:53 linux kernel: timeout_message=redo fd request
Any ideas? The floppy works find in Windows.
Sonshyne5
Dave
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DMESG(1) General Commands Manual DMESG(1) NAME
dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer SYNOPSIS
dmesg [-c] [-r] [-n level] [-s bufsize] DESCRIPTION
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. The program helps users to print out their bootup messages. Instead of copying the messages by hand, the user need only: dmesg > boot.messages and mail the boot.messages file to whoever can debug their problem. OPTIONS
-c Clear the ring buffer contents after printing. -r Print the raw message buffer, i.e., don't strip the log level prefixes. -s bufsize Use a buffer of size bufsize to query the kernel ring buffer. This is 16392 by default. (The default kernel syslog buffer size was 4096 at first, 8192 since 1.3.54, 16384 since 2.1.113.) If you have set the kernel buffer to be larger than the default then this option can be used to view the entire buffer. -n level Set the level at which logging of messages is done to the console. For example, -n 1 prevents all messages, except panic messages, from appearing on the console. All levels of messages are still written to /proc/kmsg, so syslogd(8) can still be used to control exactly where kernel messages appear. When the -n option is used, dmesg will not print or clear the kernel ring buffer. When both options are used, only the last option on the command line will have an effect. SEE ALSO
syslogd(8) AVAILABILITY
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