Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:12:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jan@todonix.ping.de (Jan Wedekind) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SNAP-0622 & fdformat: I/O-error Message-ID: <199507041312.PAA01243@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0sSsnE-00076IC@todonix.ping.de> from "Jan Wedekind" at Jul 3, 95 11:12:35 pm
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As Jan Wedekind wrote: > > Hi, > > eventually we made a mistake, because wie > just updated the kernel sources (/usr/src/sys & /usr/src/include) > but not the binaries! > > At the moment it's not possible for me to check, wether the following > error occurs with 2.0.5R: > > bash# ./fdformat -f 1440 fd0 > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/rfd0.1440'? (y/n): y > Processing ---------------------------------------- > fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error > bash# Seems like a kernel problem, not a mismatch between fdformat and the kernel. I've just tested it again on my freshly-2.0.5 notebook, and fdformat works there as usually. > kernel messages as follows: > > fd0: Seek to cyl 0, but not really there (ST3 = 28<drdy,two_side>) > fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 > fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 > fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 > fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status) Hmm, somehow the drive refuses to recalibrate. equ_chck means that the FDC issued more than 77 (don't laugh:) step pulses without seeing a track 0 signal. Perhaps the drive is not selected, in which case it won't perform any stepping operation. Everything else with that drive is working normally??? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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