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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:49:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        gyrfalc@io.org (Bruce Hearns)
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mount command
Message-ID:  <199504181949.VAA05548@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950418094025.21905A-100000@wink.io.org> from "Bruce Hearns" at Apr 18, 95 09:47:34 am

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As Bruce Hearns wrote:
> 
> Yesterday, Monday, I tried to use the same command on the same disks, and 
> received the error message:
> 
> fd0c: Hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 1<no-am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd
> sec 1)
> mount: msdos: Input/output error

...
> What gives? What do I have to change/modify?

The kernel. :-(

The floppy disk driver in 2.0 had a serious flaw that caused it to
lose interrupts after an FDC reset on certain FDC's.  This has been
fixed later, but the fix isn't easy to extract.

Try one of the newer SNAPs.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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