From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 13:14:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C97106566B for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38DF8FC0A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:14:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Z8Fu7QtA c=1 sm=0 a=de+ksHeJaPmK8cA12er7Ag==:17 a=VyBCHhcZmHwA:10 a=8JOjVTPaRU0A:10 a=kWQ6D_09QQAA:10 a=kHc8Q_KJ-KsA:10 a=CzioZpcOACmhTAYLvP8A:9 a=de+ksHeJaPmK8cA12er7Ag==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 98.31.23.46 Received: from [98.31.23.46] ([98.31.23.46:60807] helo=mail.laus.org) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 85/0F-17707-D4DB17F4; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:14:53 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (laust2 [192.168.1.100]) by mail.laus.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2RDEqKN009866 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:14:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) From: "Thomas Laus" Organization: ABB To: Eivind Evensen Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:14:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4F718511.4516.277503@lausts.acm.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20120327085831.GA75987@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> References: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org>, <20120327085831.GA75987@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lausts@acm.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:14:54 -0000 > For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a > floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, > but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is > gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. > My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't even fdformat the floppy. The format utility runs and marks all tracks bad. If I abort the process, the computer panics. I always fdformat a floppy before running DD because I find that DOS fomatting of the disk does not catch all of the surface errors. The floppy disks that were marked bad by FreeBSD 9 were successfully formatted by my laptop that runs OpenBSD 5. I was able to successfully DD the image from CDROM to the 'bad' floppy disk from the laptop. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF