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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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