From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 00:51:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F9C16A4CF for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF4D43FBD for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 00:51:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD8A7A089 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:50:27 +0100 (MET) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 937609B9C7; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:50:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id AF10395930 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:50:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id A769DB823; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:50:23 +0100 (CET) To: current@freebsd.org From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:50:23 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on dsa.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 Subject: floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:51:02 -0000 anyone else having trouble with floppies? I tried a bunch of different disks in two different machines (5.1-CURRENT with brand new drive, 4.9-PRERELEASE with an older but presumed-good drive) and all I get are I/O errors; fdformat sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and any attempt to actually read or write data fails. # uname -a FreeBSD ada.des.no 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #5: Fri Sep 5 22:= 56:22 CEST 2003 des@ada.des.no:/usr/src/sys/compile/ada i386 # fdformat fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/fd0c dd: /dev/fd0c: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 2.634334 secs (0 bytes/sec) and the console shows: fd0: recal failed ST0 70 cyl 0 last message repeated 2 times fd0: recal failed ST0 78 cyl 0 fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) on -CURRENT: # fdformat fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEVVVVVV done. Errors encountered: Cyl Head Sect Error 66 1 12 wrong cylinder (format mismatch) (although a previous run succeeded) I'm having a hard time believing this is a hardware problem, although there might conceivably be an environmental factor which affects both systems since they are in the same room. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no