Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 08:30:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? Message-ID: <17108.852276634@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Jan 1997 21:34:09 GMT." <5ah9kh$8rh$4@haywire.DIALix.COM>
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In message <5ah9kh$8rh$4@haywire.DIALix.COM>, Peter Wemm writes: >Just as a BTW, the drive in this machine (spinner) cannot write to >floppy, whatsoever. It reports that it succeeded, but reading it afterwards >returns the original data. Quite disconcerting. :-) I've meant to swap >the drive and cables etc to see if it's hardware, but never got around to >it (there's another machine right next to it that works fine). That is why fdwrite(1) actually does a read&compare. I once wrote a set of floppies with bin & src dists and found out later that my drive was shot :-( Maybe read&compare should be added to the fd driver as an option... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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