Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 05:19:33 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, joerg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? Message-ID: <199701021319.FAA15795@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 02:25:58 PST." <13734.852200758@time.cdrom.com>
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>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) >... Looks like "fdformat" is assuming the wrong density = there are only 18 blocks/track on a 1.44MB floppy (0-17), so it should come as no surprise that an attempt to format block 18 would fail. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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