Re: identifying a floppy's filesystem type

From: Haines Brown (brownh_at_teufel.hartford-hwp.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:08:19 GMT

rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com (Rod Smith) writes:

> In article <87isdrueve.fsf@localhost.localdomain>, Vilmos Soti
> <vilmos@vilmos.org> writes:
 
> Given all the errors the OP is reporting, I'm starting to wonder if
> the problem might be a bad hard disk, bad memory, or the like. My
> main puzzle with this hypothesis (and it is a big one) is why the
> problems all seem to relate to copies of this one floppy disk. Is
> the system showing any other signs of instability? Random crashes?
> Flaky accesses to other files? Other peripherals behaving strangely
> or inconsistently?

Simply put, the answer is, no. I've had my exposure to plenty of
hardware and software problems, but with my present setup, I've been
running without any unaccounted for difficulties since last fall.

Not only are the errors associated only with this one diskette and its
image, but they are not always consistent.

I've gone into more detail in another branch of this threat, but it
seems that whatever the reason, the diskette may not have a file
system and appears to hold content that is largely binary and
compressed. The original application on the diskette was for OS/2;
files were saved to it under Windows 98, and there was no sign of
any problem when I did that; but the intelligible parts of the
diskette image refer to linux libraries. 

-- 
      Haines Brown

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