From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 7 4: 4:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E7D37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 04:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e87B4J998004 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:04:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id NAA22783 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:04:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA00280 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:01:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michel) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:01:52 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: floppy drive Message-ID: <20000907130152.A259@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have just discovered a strange problem on my new PC. The mother board is an Abit KT7 hosting a Duron with Via chipset. I can triple boot FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (stock GENERIC kernel) Linux and Win98. Problem: under freebsd i cannot run fdformat fd0. Immediately bad crc errors appear, only some sectors come out with V. Of course i have tried with several floppies and two floppy drives, one of them working very well in another machine. Much stranger: with the same floppy and floppy drive and machine, formatting works perfectly OK with Linux and Win98. To add to the bizarre, once i have a good fdformatted floppy (under linux) i can perfectly read and write to it under freebsd. dd if=/dev/fd0 of= /tmp/flop works and is quite fast. dd if=/tmp/flop of=/dev/fd0 also works. Floppy drives are Sony, and it is the first time i see that on a freebsd machine. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message