From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 15 13:42:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08244 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (slip139-92-122-80.joh.za.ibm.net [139.92.122.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08189 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:42:03 GMT (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id WAA07429; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:41:19 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199804152041.WAA07429@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found In-Reply-To: <199804151950.MAA22731@hub.freebsd.org> from Berend de Boer at "Apr 15, 98 12:50:02 pm" To: berend@pobox.com Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:41:15 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Berend de Boer wrote: > Have same problem here. It's 100% repeatable. > > Hardware: Adaptec UW SCSI card, 4GB Ultra Wide IBM SCSI Disc, Intel > 440LX motherboard. > > What happens: > 1. makeflp formats floppy fine. > 2. However when writing image file it gives 'sector not found.' > 3. Floppy is complete unusable afterwards and needs to be reformatted. > > Things tried: > 1. Tried a few floppies. All behave the same. > 2. Swapped floppy drive, didn't help. > 3. Download newest Intel BIOS, didn't help. > > Finally I ran makeflop on an NT machine and booted the new machine with > that floppy. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on it right now. Please let us know which version you are using (just type `fdimage' with no arguments), and send output of the '-d' (debug) option. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message