I tried all mtools versions shipped with RH 5.0 5.1 and 5.2. I configured the /etc/mtools.conf file by hand. I ruled out the disk drive and disks as a source of error. I tried compiling mtools from the source with both gcc, and egcs, makes no difference. I tried tweaking the makefile with different compiler options (eg. no optimization, etc...). No difference. Actually it could read the disks with mdir, but it complained of file io errors when I tried to run mcopy. The same files could be read on i386 machines with the same version of mtools. The mtools work fine on our i386 machines, just doesn't want to work on our Alphas (we have two, both running RH 5.2). Any help is appreciated.
check the write permission on /dev/fd0 (you'll probably find that mtools works fine if you are logged in as root) a crude workaround is: su root, chmod o+w /dev/fd0, but be aware that this makes the floppy writable by everyone...
this has been fixed in the latest version of mtools in RawHide. If you would like, you can get a SRPM from there and compile it on 5.2, or you can wait until Red Hat Linux 6.0 is released, which will have the fixed mtools included.
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/ManageIQ/cfme https://github.com/ManageIQ/cfme/commit/0a2aaaf0306ca625a7bf8782879bbbd3ad76e1ca Remove padding from custom logo in new CFME banner Issue #1030 Bug 1001784