From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 19 23:51:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA18023 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 23:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA18016 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 23:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA08390 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 23:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA29218; Tue, 20 May 1997 08:51:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04403; Tue, 20 May 1997 08:50:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970520085019.JZ36841@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 08:50:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.com Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Subject: Re: floppy flaky References: <19970520041918.9270.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970520041918.9270.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on May 20, 1997 04:19:18 -0000 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mark thompson wrote: > Pretty strange, that no errors are reported, huh? Floppy drive, cable, > controller, software? Writing a floppy can only detect catastrophic errors (sector marks not found). Data-field only errors remain undetected. Reformat your floppy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)