From: Terry Hancock (hancock_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 14:47:54 EDT
Okay, I posted about this before, but then figured
out I had asked a really dumb question. I did
discover a couple of useful things in the process,
so I thought I'd share those :)
ThinkPad 380ED -- DO NOT USE "floppy=thinkpad"!
I guess they must've fixed the weird controller problem
in this model, because with "floppy=thinkpad" the
floppy doesn't work ("input/output error" occurs when
trying to read files, although getting directories
sometimes works). Eliminating this from lilo fixes the
problem.
Floppies should be formatted under linux using "superformat"
The successor to "fdformat" evidently -- anyway you have
to use this to do a "low-level format" THEN use "mkfs".
DUH. I really should've know that, but I got away with
it for a long time because the floppies I was using were
mostly pre-formatted by DOS and so mkfs usually worked.
Explains some of the flakiness I had experienced with
Linux and floppies in the past, though!
Anyway, I thought that might be of use to somebody.
-- Terry Hancock hancock_at_earthlink.net
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