floppy 0 probe failed

[Gregory Nowak]

Did you try using another floppy disk? It could be that you have a bad disk. I had this once, and it turned out that the disk was bad.
Greg


On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:10:15PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. I am experiencing this peculiar problem when trying to mount my
> fd0. The drive will seemingly be accessed for a period of about 2-3 secs,
> then I get floppy 0: probe failed. I then have no choice but to kill the
> process. I do have blk_dev_fd set to y, and config_idefloppy=y as well.
> The floppy drive worked fine with the 2.2 kernel I had so long ago.
> Possibly /dev/fd0 in 2.2 was a symlink to a device which is no longer used
> in 2.4? Not sure. I have neglected to fix this for a while since I didn't
> think I would use that drive very much, and I just wanted to look at the
> contents of one of my disks without having to resort to Winblows to do so.
> Thanks!
> 
> Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
> 
> 
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