From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 4 18:47:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA07518 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA07495; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA20281; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:47:09 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA01765; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:16:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905111656.34744@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:16:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "J. Weatherbee" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from J. Weatherbee on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 06:04:21PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 06:04:21PM -0700, J. Weatherbee wrote: > > Whenever I try to do operations on the floppy disk I usually get plenty of > errors like the following (spews on the console). I know that my floppy > drive works fine in linux/dos/win95 etc. > > > What information do I need to make available in order to remedy this bug? > > > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 42 of 40-43 (ST0 40 ST1 20 > ST2 20 cyl 1 hd 0 sec 7) This is saying that your disk is bad. Have you tried formatting a floppy and then reading/writing it? Greg