Date: 2 Jan 1997 21:34:09 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? Message-ID: <5ah9kh$8rh$4@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <13734.852200758@time.cdrom.com>
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In article <199701021147.MAA06507@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> Running a kernel built as of this morning from -current, I can no longer >> format floppies - I get a cascade of kernel warning messages: >> >> jkh@time-> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) >> ... > > Nothing dramatically has been changed in the floppy driver, not that i > could think of. Perhaps you simply try swapping drives first? > > Well, it happens at the first access to head 1, so perhaps the `top > head' of your drive is dead. Just as a BTW, the drive in this machine (spinner) cannot write to floppy, whatsoever. It reports that it succeeded, but reading it afterwards returns the original data. Quite disconcerting. :-) I've meant to swap the drive and cables etc to see if it's hardware, but never got around to it (there's another machine right next to it that works fine). -Peter
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