Floppy Access Goes Nowhere

[Joel Hammer]

I would try a different cable. I had a strange floppy problem years ago. The
cause was the cable. I had plugged in my serial printer or something with the
computer turned on, and shorted out my floppy cable. Wire #1 was burned out.
Joel

> Hi, list,
> 
> This is strange. I have a standard 3.5" floppy drive. Lately (the last
> few weeks), every time I want to use the floppy drive, I slap a floppy
> in, try to mount the drive, and it just hangs. The mtools suite does
> the same thing. The light goes on as if the disk is being accessed,
> but the command prompt never returns. If I call the xterm, the disk
> access continues. Just for kicks, I swapped the drive out with a known
> good one and still no joy. 
> 
> Kernel-wise, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is enabled, but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY 
> isn't (it will be shortly). I don't recall off the top of my head if
> IDEFLOPPY was configured in the kernel(s) I was running when this
> last worked. I'm kinda stumped. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt
> -- 
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