Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:33:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Floppy drive weirdness Message-ID: <3B2BA668.572CC50D@iowna.com>
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I've been trying to do a few things with floppy disks recently, and I'm starting to wonder if my floppy drive is broken somehow. Any type of write operation other than fdformat(1) produces the error: "Input/Output Error" Doing a fdformat -v shows a disk with nothing but errors. Mounting an already formatted FAT disk causes strange stuff (TM) to occur. I can find no files on the disk, but a df tells me ~600K are in use. Mounting the same floppy in my firewall (FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE) seems to work fine. The machine having the trouble is 4.3-STABLE of May 6. It sure seems like a HW problem to me, but I'm interested in confirmation and/or advice on how to get it fixed (is the drive just dead and needs replaced?) TIA, Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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