floppy 0 probe failed

Igor Gueths igueths at attbi.com
Sat Jun 29 17:17:17 EDT 2002


Hi Toby. I actually fixed it. Apparently it doesn't like disks that have
had rawrite used on them. I did this to restore my system some time ago,
and apparently I was trying to use those disks.

Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg. I'll look into that, but it has happened with multiple disks that
> > I have tried. In fact what I did was try and a superformat on the disk and
> > not even that worked. So the kernel is probably not accessing the drive
> > properly, or its using a different device. Any other ideas on why this
> > could be happening? It works just fine with 2.2, or it did before I
> > upgraded.
>
> Hmmm, there have been cases of drives which appear to be functioning
> properly, but which are in fact destroying any disk with which they come
> into contact.  Do you have another floppy drive, in case it's
> hardware-related?
>
> Cheers.
>
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