From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 00:21:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01845 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from queernet.queernet.org (queernet.queernet.org [140.174.78.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01840 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@QueerNet.ORG) Received: (from ben@localhost) by queernet.queernet.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA04218; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:21:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Gardiner Message-Id: <199809070721.AAA04218@queernet.queernet.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help needed reading 5.25" floppy Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Need help in reading old 5.25" floppies. It used to work fine until FreeBSD was installed. Now I get this error: fd1c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-3 (ST0 41 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) An older version of the same error message only differs in that fsbn 0-3 used to be fsbn 0-19. Have tried putting another 5.25" drive instead. No difference. What is running now is, with a fresh kernel: Free BSD 2.2.5 RELEASE (GENERIC+COM5+VT5-8) #0: Sun Aug 30 11:23:49 PDT 1998 Installation has been done by a very experienced person, and yet the 5.25" drive cannot be read. It was read/write okay with the previous OS, BSD 2.1. What could be wrong now? A workaround solution would be some program on DOS that could read the UNIX-format disk data (it's simple ASCII text) so that I could then put it on a 3.5" floppy. I do not expect to use the 5.25" drive any more, I just have some vital old system records on the larger floppies. If anyone could help with my essential problem -- or with the workaround solution, I'd much appreciate it. Ben From: Ben Gardiner Return address: ben@aidsinfobbs.org fax 1-415-626-9415 voice 1-415-626-1245 manager and editor of AIDS Info BBS since July 25, 1985 homepage for AIDS: http://aidsinfobbs.org homepage for BOOKS: http://sibyllineofbooks.com homepage for PLAYS: http://playwrights.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message