Hi. Whenever I read data from the floppy drive, I get messages like
these:
Jan 26 00:12:59 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
Jan 26 00:13:12 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
Jan 26 00:13:24 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
Jan 26 00:13:36 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
Jan 26 00:13:48 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 3
Jan 26 00:14:00 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
Jan 26 00:14:12 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 5
Jan 26 00:14:24 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
Jan 26 00:14:36 pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 7
and the reading process dies with "standard input: file: read failed
(Input/output error)". How can I debug this?
I have a USB floppy drive, with which I can read and write floppies and
lay down filesystems, but I can't make them bootable with lilo, and I
probably can't run fdformat. I had the bright idea of using a floppy
image instead and writing it to a floppy on another machine, but lilo
won't make that bootable either. Does it look like a hardware error?
What I haven't done is try booting from a floppy.
2.4.22, RH8, standard 1.44M FD.
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