Date: 20 May 1997 13:24:03 -0000 From: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.com Subject: Re: floppy flaky Message-ID: <19970520132403.10028.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970520085019.JZ36841@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 08:50:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) As mark thompson wrote: > Pretty strange, that no errors are reported, huh? Floppy drive, cable, > controller, software? Writing a floppy can only detect catastrophic errors (sector marks not found). Data-field only errors remain undetected. Reformat your floppy. True. But the read should detect a bad checksum, not just return bad bits, nicht wahr? And besides, i DID reformat the floppies, it still failed pretty much the same. I'm flummoxed. -mark
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