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- From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
- Subject: Problems with floppy drive
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:02:35 GMT
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- When I installed Linux 0.98pl5 about two weeks ago, I backed up my entire DOS
- partition onto floppy disk (120Mb, and I don't have a tape drive... took me ages!)
- I installed Linux, with which I am suitably impressed. However, ever since then,
- floppy i/o is generally perfect from Linux, but if I boot DOS I get strings and
- strings of General Read Errors. _All_ of my backup floppies appear to be
- corrupted. What is more, they are all corrupted at the same place (about track
- 50-52). Once I have attempted to read them with DOS, trying to read them with
- Linux also fails. This may simply be a case of the disks being old (most of them
- are about three years old), but I find it hard to believe that all of them would
- die simultaneously! So, perhaps I have a fault with my floppy drive. The
- machine is relatively new (bought in October, so still under guarantee), and I
- think it's rather a coincidence that I started having problems the day I first
- booted a Linux disk...
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- I don't expect anyone to be able to help, exactly, but I think people should be
- aware that there is even the possibility that Linux does something nasty to
- floppy drives (it's a 1.44Mb drive). This may just be paranoia but I thought it
- better to warn you. It's probably nothing.
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