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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Reinhold Josef Huber <huberre@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with floppy drives
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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