All the drives function and mount normally under Parted Magic.
Sometimes a cd will mount after 15 mins or so but if it is ejected it will not remount.
after that event the dmesg output is 3 times as long. As it is 35K chrs long it is too long to post!
I have changed hardware and cables with no effect.
I have run the repair option on the install disk. I get a cannot find floppy error
It also reports cups, hal, ntp & postfix as errors but if I select repair it still returns the same next time I run the repair routine.
It also says the bootloader is faulty if I select repair I go into an infinite loop so I exit with skip. Anyway the system boots ok and runs just fine apart from the cd/fdd/usb problem
as a liitle hint in case of usb,
open a terminal and plug in the stick,
via dmesg there should be an message which tells that an usb mass storage is found and it should have an sdX device,
so you could mount it by hand.
Unfortunately that didn’t work. here is the dmesg
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1e3d, idProduct=2093
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2: Product:
usb 1-2: Manufacturer:
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0316030085D9DE06
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access C2930909 Flash Disk 5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 4093952 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.09 GB/1.95 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 4093952 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.09 GB/1.95 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110
usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110
sd 3:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 63
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 3
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 5
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 7
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 8
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 9
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-2: device not accepting address 6, error -110
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-2: device not accepting address 7, error -110
hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
When I insert a floppy I get no response at all, it is not reading the disk.