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David L. Martin wrote: > > While trying to make a new boot disk for another PC, I popped a floppy out > of the drive while it was still mounted. Now "mount" always shows the > drive busy, and "dd" always shows it full. Even HARD and SOFT reboots > don't fix it, yet the drive continues to function fine in DOS. > > Does anyone have a clue? Hi David, Well ... There are a couple of things that you might try, What does the boot mesages say concerning the floppy drive? ~/$ dmesg | grep Floppy Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M -and - ~/$ dmesg | grep FDC FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 if the floppy checks out from the boot messages, then try remounting the floppy drive. ~/# mount -o remount,rw -t msdos /dev/fd0 ~/# mount -o remount,rw -t minix /dev/fd0 The two above examples are for either a dos or a minix floppy. If none of these work, try using the mcommands. mformat a: mcopy and see if they work I have never came upon a situation where a reboot would not solve the problem Hope these ideas work LeRoy -- 0 0 L & R Associates " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject or body of your message to plug-request@lists.nothinbut.net