Description of problem:I can mount a floppy disk and read from it. But when I cp a file to it or even just unmount it, the floppy drive hangs, light on forever, and umount never completes. Pulling the diskette corrupts its contents. Cannot even shutdown the system until you pull the diskette! I installed WindowsXP Home SP1 and it was able to read and write the floppy. Sorry, I guessed hal, but I don't really know; this is my first bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):Fedora 7 (and 8) How reproducible:Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.insert a floppy diskette 2.double-click on "Floppy Drive" icon in "Computer" 3.ls /media/disk/* OR echo hello > /media/disk/test.file 4.right-click on "floppy drive" icon, select "unmount" Actual results:floppy drive light illuminates, stays on until diskette is manually removed. Contents of diskette are "Jan 1 1980 ga" (my hostname is gakg) Expected results:floppy drive light goes out, contents of floppy are intact. Additional info:
Oops. Step 3. should say "cp /media/disk/any.file ." not just "ls" to cause linux to want to update "any.file" access time (i.e. write to the floppy).
Sorry, I was tired last night. I bought a new motherboard, GigaByte GA-MA69GM-S2H that booting a WindowsME boot floppy and writing a file to it works. I usually use fstab to let me mount a floppy from the command line. My other linux box, Fedora 6 uses this, too. It works there, but not on my new linux box, as per above. I figure that if old and new Windows can read and write the floppy disk, there must be something Fedora linux is doing that is wrong. Could be the motherboard manufacturers are playing Microsoft's game and 'tweaking' linux noses by changing the chipset JUST to cause irritating problems like this. If I can't have linux on this new computer, I'm going to trash it and buy a Mac. I understand Macintosh runs on BSD UNIX, right?
Sorry I can't get my act together. All my files are on DVDs, now, and I'm trying to get Fedora 8 back up (just reinstalled it). I found x86_64 in the list, so I changed that. The GigaByte board is the same. I should have said, after a corrupted floppy is mounted again, it has one file on it: "ga...0 bytes...plain text document...Tue Jan 01 1980 12:00:00 AM PST", always! Right clicking, choosing 'Unmount volume' yields a dialog box: "Writing data to device There is data that needs to be written to the device PC Floppy Drive before it can be removed. Please do not remove the media or disconnect the drive." NOW I think that is all the info I can provide. Thanks.
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