From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 4 19:00:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08722 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:00:38 -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 TAA08701; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:00:25 -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 LAA20504; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:57:18 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA02099; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:27:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905112703.55518@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:27:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer" Cc: "J. Weatherbee" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work... References: <19970905111656.34744@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 06:56:09PM -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 06:56:09PM -0700, J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer wrote: > >>> 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? > > 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. Have you tried it with another floppy disk? Greg