From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 6 01:10:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA02042 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 01:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA02031 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 01:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA02473; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 10:10:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA27948; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:58:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970906095817.JA35952@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:58:17 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work... References: <19970906061152.WB12935@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Sep 5, 1997 23:05:35 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > Not just one floppy --- all floppies. > > > Maybe the BIOS retries it differently, more often, or whatever. Or, > > the floppy got scratched after the initial installation. This makes it really weird then. The FreeBSD floppy driver doesn't do any fancy things, no scary optimizations, no nothing. (The Linux driver, by comparision, is much more tuned, like reading entire tracks at once, automagic format detection, etc. The FreeBSD driver is just `KISS'.) What kind of drive is it, is it perchance a 2.88 MB drive? What kind of floppy controller (don't give a penny to FreeBSD's boot messages in this case, do open the cover and see what chip is there)? Does it happen for all media at the same locations? Try to find out whether another drive on the same controller, or this drive on another controller behave similarly. If you can send me the failing combination of devices, i could debug it, if you like. Does it also when formatting a floppy with this drive/controller combination? -- 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. ;-)