From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 06:55:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B718316A4BF for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.knology.net (smtp3.knology.net [24.214.63.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC5F144001 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 19278 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2003 13:55:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO user-24-214-34-52.knology.net) (24.214.34.52) by smtp3.knology.net with SMTP; 25 Aug 2003 13:55:41 -0000 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:55:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308250855.41223.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: Formatting a floppy - Help required. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:55:43 -0000 On Monday 25 August 2003 12:49 am, Technical Director wrote: > If I were you I would try a new floppy and see if you can format > then. You as well might look into the /etc/disktab file close to the > top for other instructions on how to format a floppy. I too am having problems with formatting floppies in 5.1. Went thru a handful of floppies I regularly use and none worked. I don't have anything but FreeBSD on this machine for a 2nd opinion on the condition of its hardware but the same floppies formatted without error and seem to work in another machine with NT4. On return from NT4 I was unable to write files without 100% low level errors to the floppies with mcopy but was able to read what the NT4 machine wrote. The last time this sort of thing happend I found an oddball BIOS setting put an end to the problem in FreeBSD where NT4 had no problems. Have not had that problem with this MB and RELENG_4. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.