From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 05:31:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA23186 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 05:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sycgate.sycomore.fr (sycgate.sycomore.fr [192.134.92.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA23180 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 05:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.134.92.34] (berenguier.sycomore.fr [192.134.92.34]) by sycgate.sycomore.fr (8.6.3/8.5) with SMTP id OAA18116; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:12:37 +0200 X-Sender: berenguier@192.134.92.10 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora F1.5.3 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:32:19 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr (Eric Berenguier) Subject: Help! Floppy drive problem: crash the computer ! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm using FreeBSD Release 2.1.0, and i have problems with my floppy drive. When i read or write to a disk, i get a lot of error messages (log follows) and sometimes it crashes the computer during writes (computer hang, or panic+reboot). I've no problem with dos with the same disks (i've checked this with many disks) here is the messages i get (hope there are no errors, i'm copying this by hand) this is only a sample, i don't want to flood everyone with the full log :) when writing: fdc0: cmd 3 failed ay out byte 1 of 3 fdc0: output ready timeout fdc0: too many errors, not logging any more (it got hung just after this one) when reading: fdc0: direction bit not set fdc0: cmd e6 failed at out byte 1 of 9 if it panics during a write: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x29000000 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf016e6bb code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1,gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 current process = 205 (cp) interrupt mask = net tty bio panic: page fault syncing disks ... 25 25 25 25 25 (a lot of these) 25 25 giving up Automatic reboot in 15 seconds, etc.... Hardware configuration: 486 (from Cyrix) + IDE Hard drive + cheap vga + two cheap NE2000 compatibles Software: FreeBSD 2.1.0R - The only change to kernel is the IP-Filter patch Can anybody help me ? is it a hardware or a software problem ? should i try to use another floppy drive ? Thanks in advance, -- Eric Berenguier SYCOMORE 31, place des Corolles - 92098 PARIS LA DEFENSE http://www.sycomore.fr