From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 22 5:22:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.ecc.engr.uky.edu (spitfire.ecc.engr.uky.edu [128.163.144.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AEF37B417 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackbird.ecc.engr.uky.edu ([128.163.144.69] helo=engr.uky.edu) by spitfire.ecc.engr.uky.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16T0sD-000GP0-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:22:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3C4D6728.1000303@engr.uky.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:20:40 -0500 From: Jason Stephenson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with Floppies in 4-STABLE? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I cvsup'd my machine at home on Sunday and rebuilt the system and kernel following the instructions in the handbook. Last night, when I tried to use the floppy drive, it didn't work. The first couple times that I tried it, I would get an "input/output error." Since the activity light on the drive never blinked, I took the case off my machine and checked that the cables were properly connected. They were. Next, I tried remaking the fd0 devices with sh MAKEDEV. This time, when I tried to access the drive, I got "device not configured." I also did a "sh MAKEDEV all." Here's how I have it configured in my kernel config: # Floppy drives device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 and the kernel apparently sees it: fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold I've tried two floppies, one a msdos formatted disk and the other a tar archive that I made on the machine in question on 12/30 with 4.4 Release. I get the same error from "tar tf /dev/rfd0" as I do from "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy". This is the first time I've tried using the floppy drive since moving to 4.5-RC on this machine. I have another machine at the office, the one I'm using now, that is also running 4.5-RC, but it was last cvsup'd on Jan. 15th. The floppies work on it, and it is configured more or less the same. Although, in looking at the output from dmesg, I do notice a difference: fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 The machine that doesn't see the floppy drive doesn't print the fd0: line. I'm wondering: has anything changed in the floppy code since Jan. 15th or is my floppy drive dead? -- Jason Stephenson - UNIX Administrator Univ. of KY College of Engineering 280 Anderson Hall - 7-5497 jjas@engr.uky.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message