From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 18 12:54:33 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA15893 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:54:33 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA15882 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:54:12 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25846; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:53:28 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA02374; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:53:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA05548; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:49:32 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504181949.VAA05548@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mount command To: gyrfalc@io.org (Bruce Hearns) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:49:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Bruce Hearns" at Apr 18, 95 09:47:34 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ST1 1 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. ;-)