Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:58:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911204009.509D-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com>
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Sorry, I can't offer any help with software bugs. I've used an
odd-ball assortment of floppies since 2.0 with less than 5% failure. I
rarely bother to reformat. I dd the image to /dev/fd0 and am as happy
as a pig in a mud hole. I'm using Mitsumis now, but have used Teacs and
Sonys equally well. If there's a bug, I haven't seen it.
I would suspect the ability of a MicroS**t product to do anything
rational with questionable media. Maybe the dos program (rawrite?)
needs to make up for Redmond's short comings?
-- Jay
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> I've seen a lot of reports recently about problems with floppies under
> FreeBSD. Now I can understand a lot of that: floppies must be the
> most unreliable data storage medium I can think of, not to mention the
> most expensive per byte. But I'm getting the feeling that there is
> more to it than that, that possibly there's a bug in the floppy driver
> and that we're blaming it on the inherent unreliability of the medium.
>
> I'm looking for indications which would point towards the driver. One
> of these might be:
>
> 1. Floppy formatted under <insert your OS here> on the same machine.
> 2. FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically
> things like checksum errors).
> 3. <insert your OS here> can read the entire floppy with no trouble.
>
> If you can give me hard evidence of such occurrences, I'd like to hear
> from you. I know that plenty of people can tell me that they've had
> occurrences of (2), maybe in conjunction with (1), but unless you can
> prove (3) as well, I don't want to hear from you.
>
> In addition, if you have any other evidence I haven't thought of which
> would also point to an error in the floppy driver, please contact me.
>
> Greg
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