Re: 2.0.25 tells me "floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request"

D. Chiodo (djc@microwave.com)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:20:36 -0500 (EST)

> > felix root ~# fdformat /dev/fd1h1440; dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/disk; dd if=/tmp/disk of=/dev/fd1h1440
> > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
> > Formatting ... done
> > Verifying ... done
> > floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request
> > 2880+0 records in
> > 2880+0 records out
> > 2880+0 records in
> > 2880+0 records out
> >
> > Copied 3 floppys this way, and got this message two times.
> >
> > Gerd
> >
> > --
> > Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> | http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~kraxel/
> >
> > Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
> >
>
> Hmm.. you're making an image copy of a 1.44MB disk
> onto a 1.2MB disk.

HUH? Where did you get this? "fd1h1440" is a 1.4M floppy, which gets
formatted and verified properly.. What makes you think its a 1.2M?

I'd suggest doing directly from fd0 to fd0 with dd if=/dev/fd0
of=/dev/fd1.. I'd also suggest adding "bs=9k" parameter to dd..