From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 03:54:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA24587 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 03:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA24560; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 03:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-59.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.59]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id FAA26483; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 05:53:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA14361; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 05:53:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709121053.FAA14361@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:10:14 +0930." <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 05:53:34 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Installed a new MB and realized I had not tested the floppy very much: % fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing EEEEEEEE------------------------------- I actually let it run to E's all across. And tried it again with the same results. Then tried: % fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. Interesting. Was it operator error? Should always use rfd0? Lets try fdformat while the serial port is active: % fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. During the above this was copied from "systat -v" 39 fdc0 irq6 296 sio1 irq3 Then I tried "fdformat /dev/fd0.1440" again and got all V's. By that time the serial port wasn't busy. So this time I kicked off bonnie and got 51 pci irq9 (Adaptec 2940) 21 fdc0 irq6 blks 5245 (sd0, "SEAGATE ST32550N 0021") Processing EVEVEVEEVEVVVVEVVVVVEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. The V's were in the "Reading intelligently..." phase. Ultimately bonnie reported: -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 4388 44.6 3947 9.3 1418 3.8 2484 28.1 2520 3.7 66.3 1.2 Not sure what is going on. MB is an Asus P6NP5, PPro 166/512k. Floppy is a Mitsumi. % uname -a FreeBSD nospam.hiwaay.net 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 1 16:00:14 CDT 1997 root@nospam.hiwaay.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/PPRO166 i386 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.