From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 01:27:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B88C16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829843FAF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp109-135.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.109.135])hAR9Ri3d019192 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:57:44 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAR9Rg7Q000708 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:57:43 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:57:42 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311271957.42283.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.9 () SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: fdformat doesn't work anymore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:27:51 -0000 I am trying to format a floppy in a FreeBSD 4.9-mumble system but it spits errors on most tracks. I've tried several floppies, but the result is the same. If I do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0c" it completes without error. ie -> [midget 19:47] ~ >sudo fdformat /dev/fd0c Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0c'? (y/n): y Processing EEEEVEEVEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEVVVVVVVVVVVE done. Errors encountered: Cyl Head Sect Error 1 0 5 CRC error in data field 2 0 5 CRC error in data field 2 1 5 CRC error in data field 3 0 5 CRC error in data field 3 1 5 CRC error in data field 4 0 5 CRC error in data field 4 1 5 CRC error in data field 5 0 5 CRC error in data field 5 1 5 CRC error in data field 6 0 5 CRC error in data field (Further errors not printed.) vs [midget 19:46] ~ >sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0c dd: /dev/fd0c: end of device 2881+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 52.879389 secs (27885 bytes/sec) Nothing is logged in dmesg during fdformat. I have a fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 Running on a 1Ghz K7 KT133 system. I tried it in my laptop (Inpsiron 8000 PIII700, ICH2) with similar results. [chowder 19:50] ~ >sudo fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0c Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0c'? (y/n): y Processing EEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. Errors encountered: Cyl Head Sect Error 1 0 5 CRC error in data field 2 0 5 CRC error in data field 2 1 5 CRC error in data field 3 0 5 CRC error in data field 3 1 5 CRC error in data field 4 0 5 CRC error in data field 4 1 5 CRC error in data field 5 0 5 CRC error in data field 5 1 5 CRC error in data field 6 0 5 CRC error in data field (Further errors not printed.) Admittedly the disks I've tried are a bit old, but it seems very strange that format fails while dd works.. Floppies do suck but some times they are like Obi Wan.. my only hope :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5