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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Reinhold Josef Huber <huberre@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with floppy drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960719231718.245I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960719130806.20971B-100000@hpzenger22.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Reinhold Josef Huber wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I have the following problem accessing my 3.5" floppy drive:
> 
> Reading works perfectly with mtools and if the floppy is mounted.
> 
> Dut if I try to write to floppy with mtools or by writing on the mounted
> diskette, I get the message:
> 
> /dev/fd0 device timeout

Check cabling and the disk.  If the disk is bad it might put out this
message.  

> I get the same message when trying to unmount the floppy, I guess umount
> tries to write some buffers.

That is true.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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