Re: Kernel error - sread failed - wot?

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> I`ve been getting this message on and off - repeated enough to fill the
> screen.

(Inpects message) Hmm. tut tut tut tut...

>  What is causing this?

(sucks air through teeth) Weeell, you see guv'nor, yer kernel there is
trying to read past the end of the device. Doesn't like that, no sir.

> Mar  5 04:03:06 shaitan kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=14, limit=4 
> Mar  5 04:03:06 shaitan kernel: dev 02:00 blksize=512 blocknr=27
> sector=27 size=512 count=1 
> Mar  5 04:03:06 shaitan kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed 
> Mar  5 04:03:06 shaitan kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

Device 2:00 .. probably fd0? Mmm, it's buggered. Either the floppy disk is
'kaput' (technical term, that) or the drive itself is jiggered. Notice the
difference between 'buggered' and 'jiggered' - they're not the same.

buggered: [adj.] faulty; non repairable. See: paper-weight.

jiggered: [adj.] stressed; hammered. Needs TLC.

Likely that your floppy needs the head realigned (pass me the screwdriver
;) or possibly just the dust blown out. I've not seen a broken floppy
drive yet, although people complain about them all the time. They're rock
solid, floppy drives, can't really knacker them without doing something
silly[1]. 

Cheers,

Alex.

[1]: Suitable example: pull back metal shutter on a disk. Staple the media
inside (Yes, with a stapler, preferably staple-gun). Insert into machine. 
(clunk). Your working/jiggered drive is now buggered. 


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