From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 5:36:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1592337B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 05:36:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hclb.demon.co.uk (hclb.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305E843F3F for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 05:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@hclb.demon.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by hclb.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.9.3) id h0FDOY100482 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:24:34 GMT (envelope-from root) From: devans@hclb.demon.co.uk (Dave Evans) Subject: Re: 5.0 DP2 fixit.flp woes In-Reply-To: <_xL9FC.A.zaB.xRTJ-@hclb.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1042662074snx@hclb.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.43 $ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 03 13:21:14 GMT Organization: Lines: 40 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on order. It has not arrived yet. I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault. To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if accessed as a FreeBSD file system. It is ok if accessed as raw read and write, or using Windows NT. kern, fixit, mfsroot and drivers floppies are from 5.0 DP2 cdrom. Summary ======= OK fdformat -v FAIL fsck /dev/fd0 on fixit floppy OK fsck /dev/fd0 on mfsroot floppy FAIL fsck /dev/fd0 on drivers floppy FAIL fixit, mount on /mnt and "tar cvf testtar /mnt" FAIL fixit, mount on /mnt and "find /mnt" OK boot up on kern floppy, load mfsroot and use sysinstall FAIL boot up on kern floppy, load mfsroot and use fixit floppy OK dd if=/dev/fd0 OK mcopy (part of mtools package) large files to and from a MSDOS floppy OK Windows NT, copy hundreds of small files to and from a subdirectory on an MSDOS floppy. This involves lots of seeks. FAIL mcopy hundreds of small files from MSDOS floppy (created by NT) FAIL mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 and cp hundreds of file from MSDOS floppy as created by NT OK Windows NT, format a: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message