[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian-JohnK

[Cecil Hornbaker]

Whit,

Have you tried booting with a recent debian based live cd (knoppix,
ubuntu, etc) to see if it can access the drive?  This is a technique
I've used to troubleshoot X Window configuration problems.

Cecil

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:05 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
> Hey John,
> I wondered the same thing to some degree but I've not had a hiccup using 
> W95/W98/WXP to read/write to the Sony formatted disks.  I can format 
> using any of the above Windows OS's and use them in the Sony camera, 
> too.  There isn't any problem at all between the Sony camera and Windows 
> OS's and floppies.  I have tried the Sony formatted disks in this WXP 
> setup and it works fine but Linux upchucks immediately.  Same w. WXP 
> formatted disks.  And I can't even format a DOS format using my Linux 
> setup.  It's just hosed as to the floppy setup for some reason.  I'm 
> guessing it is the kernel/module setup but of course don't know for 
> sure.   I've had no problems with this BIOS at all.  And the mobo is ony 
> about a year old and a Sempron chip so it's up to date.
> 
> When I've just formatted a couple of disks using WXP and then rebooted 
> to Linux and try to read or even re-format, it tells me that it is not a 
> DOS floppy or can't find block 0 or some other such nonsense.  It's 
> aggravating, darn it.  And that's either using the kfloppy Gui or the CLI.
> 
> But thanks for your interest, John.
> 
> Whit
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Kramer wrote:
> > Hey, I feel your pain - been there! 
> > Is it possible that Sony is using a non-standard format on the disk? 
> > Can you format disks from your lenny boot and r/w them? Or is it a case of
> > any and all floppy activity is a no go?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org [mailto:leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org] On
> > Behalf Of Whit Hansell
> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 11:25 AM
> > To: This is the Leap Main List
> > Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian-JohnK
> >
> > Hi John,
> > Yep, I've checked out that the floppy does work, both using various fl 
> > disks and actually various drives.  I have three drives around here and 
> > they all work fine on the WXP drive I have installed in this box and no 
> > problems w. the various floppy disks I have tried; both formatting and 
> > with data already on them.  Work like they are supposed to.
> >
> > But when I try to use any of them, both drives and disks on my Lenny 
> > system on another drive on the same system, no joy at all.
> >
> > But thanks for your interest and recommendation.  I appreciate it.
> >
> > Whit
> >
> >
> >
> > John Kramer wrote:
> >   
> >> Have you tried booting from the floppy drive with a boot disk? Just as a
> >> check of the underlying HW and BIOS. 
> >>
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