From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 11:34:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9FD37B403 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5GIUos26835 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:30:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B2BA668.572CC50D@iowna.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:33:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Floppy drive weirdness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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