Date: 29 May 2003 14:49:43 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk hardware failure ? Message-ID: <44llwpwptk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F83WfN3vSAMfKQ0000e775@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F83WfN3vSAMfKQ0000e775@hotmail.com>
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"Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> writes: > Is this a hardware problem? I get the same thing with all disks I > have tried. Yes, probably. I'm guessing it's an MS-DOS type floppy, being mounted with "mount -t msdos". You might try the mtools, which parse the filesystem a little differently, but it's unlikely to matter when the very first block is failing.
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