From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 00:16:24 2005 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 A6AA616A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F7F43D2F for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2A0GD3d062447; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:46:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:46:00 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <200503091402.48207.pbowen@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <200503091402.48207.pbowen@fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2938683.D5DpAQoDZd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503101046.09111.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.1 () IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: pbowen@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: Floppy problems in 5.3 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, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:24 -0000 --nextPart2938683.D5DpAQoDZd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:32, pbowen@fastmail.fm wrote: > # bsdlabel -B -w /dev/fd0 fd1440 > # newfs /dev/fd0 > newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2879: Input/output error =2E.. > # newfs_msdos /dev/fd0 > /dev/fd0: 2840 sectors in 355 FAT12 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) > bps=3D512 spc=3D8 res=3D1 nft=3D2 rde=3D512 sec=3D2880 mid=3D0xf0 spf=3D2= spt=3D18 hds=3D2 > hid=3D0 newfs_msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > # Do you get anything in dmesg from these? > If I take a linux formatted floppy, mount it, then "ls" on the mount poin= t, > I can get the dir listing. Or if I "less" a file on the floppy I can read > the contents. Any attempt to use "vi" or to write to the floppy fails with > another "Input/Output error". Of course, the same drives and floppies > mount, read, and write under Minix, Slackware-10.0 and FreeBSD 4.11. Tried that floppy drive with a different OS, or tried a different drive wit= h=20 =46reeBSD? =2D-=20 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2938683.D5DpAQoDZd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCL5HI5ZPcIHs/zowRAlI/AKCONIZiHgsWISXA4D3muHG35xM2GgCfUkWp dEOrPWOa10gv8t1MzDJh7PY= =Idkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2938683.D5DpAQoDZd--