From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 14:05:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A450A16A43C for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 14:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopisaur@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0075543D45 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 14:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lopisaur@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i31so349229wxd for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 07:05:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=dZZO98aNZRJ2cihz+tvILOdTMp9s8tR0l8N8uo5mn/ciORe6MOQdkMLTM+WbvaoiO2ZKJbOnNUJ/UUPEho3JpzreN9ErPyaXOG703bAfRz9yugBJWxwLaJNSE4SIoq1fdBDrbMMMBjhGCtddvjW+WQV9dWpJ4drmDr6dp2WUt5M= Received: by 10.70.28.11 with SMTP id b11mr722285wxb; Thu, 18 May 2006 07:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hellion.clcw ( [206.107.150.226]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i37sm978622wxd.2006.05.18.07.05.50; Thu, 18 May 2006 07:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <443bf7tq3a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1147906099.746.11.camel@hellion.clcw> <443bf7tq3a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:10:36 -0400 Message-Id: <1147961436.17216.4.camel@hellion.clcw> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Hard crashes with floppy access X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lopisaur@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:05:53 -0000 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 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