Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:56:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? Message-ID: <199701021357.OAA07036@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701021319.FAA15795@root.com> from David Greenman at "Jan 2, 97 05:19:33 am"
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As David Greenman wrote: > >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. No, you're clearly misinterpreting the log message. It has just switched to use head 1 (aka. ``top head''). This is fully correct, block 18 == cyl 0 head 1 sector 1 (sector numbering is base 1, cylinder and head numbering is base 0). -- 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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