From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 31 0:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A66737B408 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id JAA02537; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:20:18 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9V8H6617375; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:17:06 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:17:06 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200110310817.f9V8H6617375@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <200110071553.f97Fr5G43922@sii.linuxsweden.nu> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: high-density floppies X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.current To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Joel Wilsson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joel Wilsson wrote: > fd0: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40 ST1 1 > ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) > So, I thought I'd try using a raw device configured for > higher density disks. That wouldn't help you. It's already failing at the very first sector, by not finding any address mark at all. Thus using one of the »over-formatted« (like fd0.1720) devices wouldn't help. > The reason I think they might NOT be damaged is that they > are all of the same type (different type from the floppies > I could read), and they are all "double density" floppies. Well, if you really mean "double density", it wouldn't require a higher density device but a /lower/ density one. The default device is using "high density" (2000000 bytes raw medium capacity), while DD media were 1000000 bytes raw. So you could try using /dev/fd0.720. > My question is, how can I do the equivalent of opening, for > example, /dev/fd0.1720 (in -stable) under -current? You just open it, and it will magically appear in /dev. :-) [I've got a huge patchset here that will autodetect DD vs. HD floppies, but before i'm going to commit it, i have to upgrade my box first to -current. This will also change the policy regarding additional /dev/fd* devices, and i'll eventually upgrade the man page as well.] -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message