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You could try the following:
- check the output of "dmesg"; here you find which devices are recognized at boot time
- check if bios settings are OK for this drive (some people actually forget this when they install other drives...)
- Is floppy disk support enabled in the kernel? (think it's somewhere under block device drivers in the menu)
- is the /dev/fd0 special file present? Since you get this "invalid arg." message, maybe it's missing...
dmesg output:
... ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
...
microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected inserting floppy driver for 2.6.7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.2M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
...
BIOS Settings.... i did check'em twice... now a third time...!!
/dev/fd0 special file present... i guess it is because it reads
the disk but it won't mount it because of the block device
error.....
i believe the floppy is supported in the kernel... but i'm checking again...
when i try to mount the drive, the led turns on...
and then the shell gives me the error...
>> does the drive's LED light up when you try mounting the disk?
yes it does...
>> try dd'ing a few bytes out?
how do i do this!??
>> Does it show any sign of activity?
yes, it spins... when accessing the drive!!
btw, i forgot to mention that the cable that goes to the mb is not
a regular floppy one, the connector that goes to the M/B it does looks
like a floppy but at the other end it looks like a pci connector(not really)...
is this causing a problem!?? and on the old pc that i removed the drive
from it has all the pins on the floppy connector while my M/B(ASUS) is
missing one pin you know the standard...
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