Floppy Access Goes Nowhere
Ted Ozolins
ted1
Mon May 17 11:49:03 PDT 2004
Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth Kurt Wall:
>
>>I don't think I have a broken disk change line, but it couldn't hurt
>>to give it a shot.
>
>
> Nope. I reckon the controller's shot. From fdformat
> # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
> Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read -1
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> Kurt
I know this might be a long shot but, have you tried booting off of that
floppy? something like memtest or an install disk?
--
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.
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