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From: Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>
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To: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com>
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Subject: Re: gtabug - Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn
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Hardware? Maybe a flakey ribbon cable or power supply connector.

Ciao
 --Louis  <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> 


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dennis Jun wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE yesterday but I got the
> following error when I tried to boot up my kern.flp:
> 
> Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x10)
> 
> At first I thought I just had a bad floppy so I made another image on
> another floppy but I had same error. Then I tried 4 other floppies and I
> still got the same problem. Plus I also tried these same floppies in a
> Win2k box and they seemed alright. Then I thought it might have been my
> actual floppy disk drive so I replaced that with one that I knew that
> worked for sure. Same problem. Then I thought it could have been the image
> itself, so I made an image of a previous STABLE image but same problem.
> Then I tried the 4.2-RELEASE image. Same thing. I'm stumped.
> 
> Fortunately I had a previous install on this box. I tried to mount the
> floppy drive and I got this error:
> 
> <sunnie> ~# mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
> mount: Input/output error
> 
> and my /var/messages had this:
> 
> Jan 14 18:43:02 sunnie /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-31
> (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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