From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 20 15:57:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA00852 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:57:49 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA00831 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 15:57:42 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04703; Mon, 20 Feb 95 18:57:23 EST Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:57:19 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hoffman To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0R, floppy problem Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, by downloading the newer 2.0R floppies from freefall, I got FreeBSD to install off of my WC 2.0R CD. Now, for some reason, whenever I try to read a floppy disk (or mount one, or...), I get an error. Here is an example: nexus# mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) mount_msdos: mount: Input/output error nexus# This is with a DOS-formatted floppy in the drive. When I try to install my X server (AcceleratedX from X Inside, Inc.), I get the following: nexus# tar -xvzf /dev/rfd0 fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-19 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) tar (child): read error on /dev/rfd0 : Input/output error gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: child status returned 1 nexus# does anyone have any idea what is wrong? I re-made my kernel from the srcdist and the whole 9 yards, yet nothing seems to fix the problem. Is there any hope? Jeff -- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.