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Hi,

I've been trying to do a couple tasks with floppy disks and I've come up
short every time.  I've tried fdformat, fdisk, disklabel, mounting and
unmounting, and very little seems to work.  I've tried various disks,
flicked the write-protect switch up and down, and no results.  Is there a
problem w/ ioctl?  I'm running 4.2-RELEASE.  As far as I can tell my drive
works alright, I was able to update my BIOS using one of the same disks
I'm using now (though I created the BIOS floppy on a friend's machine).

[ROOT@jobuki:51] fdformat
usage: fdformat [-y] [-q] [-n | -v] [-f #] [-c #] [-s #] [-h #]
                [-r #] [-g #] [-i #] [-S #] [-F #] [-t #] devname
[ROOT@jobuki:52] fdformat fd0
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error
[ROOT@jobuki:53] fdformat -f1440 fd0.1440
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y
Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error
[ROOT@jobuki:54] mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount: Input/output error
[ROOT@jobuki:55] damn
damn: Command not found.
[ROOT@jobuki:56]


Any advice?

TIA,
Mark Miller


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