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

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:15:21 -0400 (EDT), flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

:>On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Mike Vanecek wrote:
:>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:08:15 -0400 (EDT), flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
:>> 
:>> :>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
:>> 
:>> Version 2.2.5-15.
:>> 
:>> :>
:>> :>oddly, sometimes using mcopy works....
:>> 
:>> Tried it and no success. Even if I do a less /mnt/floppy/tulip.c it fails. I
:>> did remember to tell it to mount as -t vfat. I looked at the faq at Red Hat
:>> and did not see anything. 
:>> 
:>> Does this mean Linux does not know how to use floppies?
:>> 
:>> Thank you for the response.
:>
:>perhaps also -o conv=binary
:>(default is binary tho, unless it's really auto and confused, i'm sure
:>confused)
:>
:>don't forget if you ftp'd it to a win machine in ascii mode,  will have
:>CR's in it , you have to remove
:>them, the compiler hates them ;0

Finally figured it out but do not know why. I had to enter
append="floppy=nodma" in my lilo.conf file so that dma is turned off for the
floppy. After that everything works. Well, almost everything. Whenever I am in
root and using the gnome file editor and right click edit a file, nothing
happens. It works if I am not in root. About ready to put the hard disk on the
shelf for a while and see if it learns to behave itself. Starting to call the
system linsux.


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