From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 19: 8:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu (UX4.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C157337B7A6 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sourav@cs.cmu.edu) Received: from MODERN.ART.CS.CMU.EDU by ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01002; 20 Apr 2000 22:08 EDT Message-ID: <38FFB8A9.52677CE1@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:10:49 -0400 From: Sourav Ghosh Organization: Carnegie Mellon University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: System crash in reading floppy for 3.1! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a compaq persario with AMD (K6-2, 475 MHz) running FreeBSD 3.1. I have one particular floppy (dos formatted) that crashes the system when I was trying to read it. I could mount the floppy (using mount_msdos /dev/fd0a). I can read the directory ok. The problem starts when I try to read any file from that. The file could be read. But after that, the system console keeps printing the following message: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 19 (ST0 40 ST1 2 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 2) I didn't try to write on the floppy and it was "write protected". And no problem occurs if I make the floppy "writable". And I could see that the system is accessing the floppy drive from time to time. And if I check the files, there is no change in the timestamp of the files in the floppy. The system finally crashes after printing that message several times on console. Just for information, floopy was a quick-restore floppy for windows 98. But this thing only happens for that particular floppy. I have another floppy with the identical set of files (apparently, the sizes and the contents of the files are same on both the floppies). Any idea for this weird system crash? Thanks, -- Sourav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message