From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 20:23:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4F416A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:23:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CFE43D4C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:23:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm248-230.liwest.at ([81.10.248.230]) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CEvqQ-0005RG-EZ for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:23:34 +0200 From: Daniela To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:25:14 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410052225.14722.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Floppy drive is going nuts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dgw@liwest.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:23:37 -0000 Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I tried to write a file (which is just a little bit over 1440k in size) to a 1720k formatted floppy (worked properly in the past), and the result was a complete system lockup. I had to do a hard reset to bring it back. This is reproducable. I'm running 4.10-STABLE. How can I tell whether this is a software bug or flaky hardware? Regards, Daniela