From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 7 0:42:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E636A37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det3.ameritech.net (mailhost2-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8F743FDF for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.16.140]) by mailhost.det3.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030207084209.PNXO20886.mailhost.det3.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:42:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3E437153.20004@ameritech.net> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:41:55 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willie Viljoen Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy References: <3E436DBE.3020200@ameritech.net> <200302071035.31297.will@unfoldings.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Highly doubtful, The drive works in DOS a-ok. I've tried throwing it on other fd cables and other fd cable slots (fd1) to check. Still, the same message is shown. D Willie Viljoen wrote: >Chances are your drive is busted, try reading the same floppy in another >machine or with another OS, if that works, try rewiring :) > >On Friday 07 February 2003 10:26, northern snowfall wrote: > >> Morning, all; >> I'm trying to get a Mitsumi D509V3 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive >> to work on FreeBSD 4.2.6. The operating system reports the drive >> is available and definitely makes contact with the drive (visual >> confirmation: LED). The issue is during read/write from the >> drive. Error message: >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status) >> I have the proper drive type set in the BIOS. FreeBSD seems to >> agree according to the dmesg: >> fd0: <1200-KB 5.25" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 >> I've been doing simple read tests using: >> dd if=/dev/fd0 count=1 bs=512 | hexdump ; >> Any suggestions? >> Don >> >> >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message