Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:10:36 -0400 From: Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard crashes with floppy access Message-ID: <1147961436.17216.4.camel@hellion.clcw> In-Reply-To: <443bf7tq3a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1147906099.746.11.camel@hellion.clcw> <443bf7tq3a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Well, I that was my first thought also. The first one was quite an old disk, but it worked on this very same machine, in fact it was formatted (granted, a very long time ago) on this machine under 6.0. The other disk was brand-new, and it works on one of my other PCs, running 5.5-PRE. I know this whole thing is not a big deal, and I personally wouldn't be happier if the floppy disk went the way of the Dodo, but I guess it's a necessary evil. On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:33 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> writes: > > > This afternoon I experienced two hard crashes while accessing my floppy > > drive. > > Mounting seemed to work OK, then I tried to copy a file (~24K) to the > > disk and then nothing, having to go for the Reset button. The first time > > this happened under X, the second time on a terminal. > > I have no idea when exactly this started to happen; the last time I used > > a floppy must have been around March... > > > > FreeBSD hellion.clcw 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri May 12 > > 12:55:23 BOT 2006 root@hellion.clcw:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/20051212 > > i386 > > Are you sure you didn't just have bad media? > I try to access floppies in ways that don't involve actually mounting > them, because they do tend to go bad. -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner lopisaur@gmail.com lopisaur@acelerate.com (+591-705)98290 http://lopisaur.googlepages.com
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