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[162.239.0.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v58sm11739474qtj.56.2020.08.14.11.10.13 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized To: Tomasz CEDRO , Don Wilde Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , Christoph Kukulies , Steve O'Hara-Smith References: <46FFA8F9-90AA-42DE-8E8B-CA4383CA7AC6@kukulies.org> <20200814101021.c71f6c23768a5bef685739fe@sohara.org> <20200814071030.3f319e5a@scorpio.seibercom.net> <76A64DE1-B61B-405E-A623-C886819E1977@kukulies.org> <20200814151509.0feef428f3692a1d9a2bb39a@sohara.org> <4db32149-6ddb-e70f-c36a-a2acc8bc0e9c@gmail.com> From: "Jin Guojun[VFF]" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:10:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BSs142nSDz40RK X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=TOU8Xt6d; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jguojun@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::841 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jguojun@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.08 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCPT_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.01)[-0.012]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[cedro.info,gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.05)[-1.055]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.01)[-1.009]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::841:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:10:18 -0000 On 08/14/20 09:34, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 6:14 PM Don Wilde wrote: >> On 8/14/20 8:45 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >>> Is floppy drive still available? Was it supposed to be removed..? >> It's still in the GENERIC kernel configuration. Disk Doctors, if you >> have one local, should be able to tell you whether the diskette itself >> is readable and formatted. > Good news, thank you :-) There was a discussion somewhere around 2017 > to remove it.. I am glad floppies are still here and will stay here > :-) I am fan of retro computers and this may come handy :-) > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-December/018681.html > We still have it :-) # mount_msdosfs -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt # ll /mnt total 2131 drwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    7168 Dec 31  1979 ./ drwxr-xr-x  24 root  wheel    1024 Aug 14 10:50 ../ -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    6883 Dec 30  1993 ADDHELP.OV_* -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   28962 Dec 30  1993 DBLSPACE.BI_* -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     302 Dec 30  1993 DBLSPACE.SYS* -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     744 Dec 30  1993 DOSUMB.CO_* -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  175485 Dec 30  1993 IBMAVD.EX_* -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   78253 Dec 30  1993 IBMAVSP.EX_* ... # umount /mnt --- change to a bad floppy disk # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 3.943048 secs (0 bytes/sec) ^C # fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE done. Errors encountered: Cyl Head Sect   Error   0    0    1   no address mark in ID field   0    1    1   no address mark in ID field   1    0    1   no address mark in ID field   1    1    1   no address mark in ID field   2    0    1   no address mark in ID field   2    1    1   no address mark in ID field   3    0    1   no address mark in ID field   3    1    1   no address mark in ID field   4    0    1   no address mark in ID field   4    1    1   no address mark in ID field (Further errors not printed.) # uname -a FreeBSD f114 11.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE #0: Sun Aug  9 23:48:49 PDT 2020     root@f114:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/MinMax  amd64