From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 08:00:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA08895 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme118.sunshine.net [204.191.205.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA08869; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA03680; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:59:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? In-Reply-To: <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm looking for indications which would point towards the driver. One > of these might be: > > 1. Floppy formatted under on the same machine. > 2. FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically > things like checksum errors). > 3. can read the entire floppy with no trouble. > > If you can give me hard evidence of such occurrences, I'd like to hear > from you. I know that plenty of people can tell me that they've had > occurrences of (2), maybe in conjunction with (1), but unless you can > prove (3) as well, I don't want to hear from you. Here is a problem I had and what I included in a previous question. -=* Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Heres one I can't find in the archives. I tried to mount a 720Kb DOS Floppy with: /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt today which returned an input/output error, and returned to tcsh prompt. I was interupted and while dealing with that I turned to notice the following. Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8: 0xf010fa91 stack pointer = 0z10: 0xefbffee4 frame pointer = 0x10: 0xefbfff0c code segment = base 0x0, Limit 0xfffff, type 0x16 = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1 ,gran1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, iopl=0 current process = 192(sh) interrupt mask net tty bio panic: general protection fault syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up (this may not be accurate format but the content should be) This was a freshly formatted disk with no bad sectors report- ed. # /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.720 /mnt Jul 11 20:35:27 kevin /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17) As you might imagine, after the prior incident, I did a clean shut down immediately as to avoid another panic. Another consideration I had was that it was kernel config. Jul 12 13:54:02 kevin /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in Although I can format a 720 without problem. ??? *=- Hope this helps. -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ...." British Columbia *BSD User Directory ==> http://www.cynic.net