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From: "J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer" <root@acromail.ml.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work...
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My disk is not bad it does this during an fdformat also on any floppy and
yes I have tried using the fd0.1440 and raw as parameters.

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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<abnrml> ST1 20<bad_crc>
> > ST2 20<bad_crc> 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
>