Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:07:55 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Chris Pockele <chrisp@belgacom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy drive problem Message-ID: <20030422120327.X23365-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030421170801.GA23306@freedaemon.home.lan>
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Chris Pockele wrote: > I've got a 486 laptop running a FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE snapshot from > february 4th. Unfortunately its floppy drive is acting weird under FreeBSD: > > nomad# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-3 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 10<data_overrun> ST2 > 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) > msdos: /dev/fd0a: Input/output error Try doing a 'fdformat fd0' several times on different floppy disks. I wouldn't rule out that your drive has died... its happened to me. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/
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