I've got four SPARCs (two IPX, two IPC) with non-working floppydrives. I'm
hoping it's just choked with dust or something. Here's a sample error
message from one of the IPCs trying to mount a DOS floppy (and I know the
floppy is formatted correctly):
xiamin@goethe ~ % sudo mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0c /mnt
Password:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
head 0
sec 1)
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
head 0
sec 1)
mount_msdos: mount: Input/output error

Does this mean my drive is dead or what? According to the previous owner the
drive was working fine a month ago, so maybe it got damaged in shipping.
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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis