floppy 0 probe failed

[Igor Gueths]

I have a regular drive it shows up as fd0. Also, has anyone had any
problem with mtools segfaulting when trying to create a dos filesystem on
a floppy? The first version I had was the version that came with Debian,
so I upgraded to the latest version from http://mtools.linux.lu. Has
anyone had any luck with this version? Bc I don't want to have to resort
to winblows just to create a fat filesystem on a floppy, considering that
I should be able to do this using mformat. Thanks in advance.

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

> Is your floppy drive an ide floppy drive i.e. superfloppy
> or is it the regular 34-wire one connected to a floppy controller?
> If the drive s hows up in dmesg as fd0 it is regular; if it shows as hdx
> it is an atapi floppy.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:30:25PM -0400, 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.
> >
> > Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows!
> > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > 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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