Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? Message-ID: <199701021147.MAA06507@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <13734.852200758@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 2, 97 02:25:58 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Running a kernel built as of this morning from -current, I can no longer > format floppies - I get a cascade of kernel warning messages: > > jkh@time-> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > ... Nothing dramatically has been changed in the floppy driver, not that i could think of. Perhaps you simply try swapping drives first? Well, it happens at the first access to head 1, so perhaps the `top head' of your drive is dead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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