Annoyances with Linux

When I was running a Slackware kernel 1.12 (I think, it's a long while ago) I had regularly corruptions of data on floppy disks (at least those using FAT 16 formats).

When I moved to a Red Hat kernel 2.0, I still had every now and then data corrution on floppy disks, even after creating an alias which did two "sync" (to be sure, to be sure) before a umount.

I then moved to a redhat 2.2 : same problem, and also then I installed a parallel zip drive which also, every now and then, produces corrupted data (also in FAT 16 format). By the way, that's using different hardware, so it's not the motherboard (3 or 4 motherboards were used in between), or the fd drives (3 of which were used).

Now I'm running a Caldera 2.2 kernel (I promise I'll change soon, in view of the SCO controversy!), same intermittent problem.

Now I usually unmount the drive, then remount it and try and read the data, and if it passes this test, then I feel the disk is ok and, after unmounting a second time, I'll take it with me to wherever I need it. I just wish I didn't have to go through this rigmarole!

That's my only gripe, but I wish this was fixed sooner rather than later. For all the rest, Linux beats the pants off MS.

John

EOM 

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