Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:43:29 -0500 (CDT) From: evs@esfm.ipn.mx To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/50990: Intel deskboards canno handle correctly floppy drives Message-ID: <200304151443.h3FEhTW0074290@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> Resent-Message-ID: <200304151450.h3FEoGJA024028@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 50990 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Intel deskboards canno handle correctly floppy drives >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 15 07:50:16 PDT 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Eduardo Viruena Silva >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 i386 >Organization: ESFM-IPN >Environment: System: FreeBSD Gina.esfm.ipn.mx 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #3: Sat Mar 29 21:27:31 CST 2003 root@Isabeau.esfm.ipn.mx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/eviruena i386 >Description: I have two Intel deskboards: D850GB/Pentium 4 1.7MHz, 512 Mb RAM D815EEA/Pentium III, 900 MHz, 256 Mb RAM and two floppy drives of the same brand and model: SONY MPF920-Z I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and updated it to patch 7 in both computers. I do not have access to floppy drives. The problem is not restricted to handle filesystems, [both msdosfs, ufs fail to mount], disc images cannot be written to floppies . I also tried to make a etherboot boot disc. I cannot even make FreeBSD boot floppies. My FreeBSD-5.0 is working perfectly and I could make boot floppies from FreeBSD-4.8 Deskboards/Floppy drives work under FreeBSD 4.8 [I deinstalled FreeBSD-5.0 from one of them, installed FreeBSD 4.8 and the floppy drive worked again] >How-To-Repeat: Install FreeBSD-5.0 on a computer with a Intel deskboard, I do not know if the floppy type is relevant. test a) Take a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE CD and mount it in your system: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Insert a new floppy in you floppy drive. Try to write kern.flp image to your floppy: [according to the /floppies/readme.txt file in the FreeBSD 5.0 CD] dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/rfd0 I do not have this device-file. I tried: dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/fd0 test b) Let suppose you have a kern.flp floppy. Try to mount it: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt test c) Try to mount an ms-dos floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt test d) Install mtools from the ports [/usr/ports/emulators/mtools]. Try to read a ms-dos floppy mdir a: I also run all of these tests on FreeBSD 4.8, they all worked perfectly. >Fix: Unknown. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:home | help
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