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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