Could be damaged.  Could be dirty.  But did you mean to suggest that you get
the same error on all four boxen??  To me, that points at software...

What about other sorts of operations, tar and such?

-m

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> -Simon Raahauge DeSantis

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