Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 20:05:43 +0900 From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@sfc.wide.ad.jp> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with floppy drive (please help) Message-ID: <199605061105.UAA00285@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:02 %2B0930 (CST)" References: <199605060839.SAA14365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: problem with floppy drive (please help)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:02 +0930 (CST)
> Have you updated your kernel since then?
Yes, I'm running kernel from around 05/03.
> > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status)
>
> That's bad. Did you get any extra stuff (fsbn <blah> etc.)?
No.
> If you have DOS on the machine, check that it can still talk to the drive.
> Check that you can read another floppy. That's a start...
Ahhh, I should've thought of this.
Well, I don't have DOS on the machine. So I tried to boot from a
DOS floppy, and it went on like there's no disk in the drive. ;-P I
guess, now I have to check the floppy drive itself.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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