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Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 05:19:33 PST."
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 15:43:37 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <199701021319.FAA15795@root.com>, David Greenman writes:
>>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.

Notice that it's saying "cyl 0 hd <1> sec 1" 

bad drive, probably a dead head.

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