[ale] floppy problem

[Wandered Inn]

Can't help much but to say that I had a similar problem, also assumed I
had a flaky floppy drive.  I don't use it that often, but back when this
machine was a dual boot (Linux/95) I had it do the same thing under
win95.  I've since figured it's the drive and plan on replacing it
shortly.

Sunil Patel wrote:
> 
> I have a weird problem with my floppy drive under Red Hat 6.0.
> Everything seems to lock up when I am using Mount, or fdformat, or mkfs,
> or dd  command on this floppy drive.  The drive light stays green and
> you can not do anything with machine ( mouse, keyboard, etc...).  I
> first thought that it might be the drive that is going bad but it seems
> to do the same thing when I swaped it out with  my old 386 machine's
> floppy drive.  I also try re-creating the device files by using MAKEDEV
> under /dev directory.  That did not help either.  does anyone have this
> same problem.  Your help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
> Thanks
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> Sunil Patel
> email: yqrsdjl at snt.bellsouth.com

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