Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:41:30 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.com Subject: Re: floppy flaky Message-ID: <4053.199705201541@pork.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <19970520132403.10028.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> from mark thompson at "May 20, 97 01:24:03 pm"
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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. Well, I've had reads from floppies return bad data as well - there was a stream of timeout errors (which I always get using floppies), but nothing unusual. I think Imust have a dodgy fdd though - sometimes I get 'unable to seek to track n' errors (where n is often 20 or 40), which are often followed by a freeze. :( (The floppy disk itself is OK here - reboot and try again, and the disk is OK.) > > I'm flummoxed. > > -mark >
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