Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Reinhold Josef Huber <huberre@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with floppy drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960719231718.245I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960719130806.20971B-100000@hpzenger22.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Reinhold Josef Huber wrote: > Hi all! > > I have the following problem accessing my 3.5" floppy drive: > > Reading works perfectly with mtools and if the floppy is mounted. > > Dut if I try to write to floppy with mtools or by writing on the mounted > diskette, I get the message: > > /dev/fd0 device timeout Check cabling and the disk. If the disk is bad it might put out this message. > I get the same message when trying to unmount the floppy, I guess umount > tries to write some buffers. That is true. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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