Re: [cobalt-users] OT Question - Floppy on Red Hat

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> Sorry for the OT question, but I ran into a problem trying to restore my
> Qube2. I downloaded Tulip.c on a Win4 machine and put it on a floppy. I had
> Red Hat running on another machine. I mounted the floppy and read the file off
> of the floppy to do a compile. Every time I copied the from the floppy the
> file was corrupted (characters changed) when I tried the compile. I used the

What kernel version? There are bugs in the linux floppy driver in some
older kernels that corrupt data read from the floppy :(

2.0.33 is definitly broken ;0

oddly, sometimes using mcopy works....