From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 03:20:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F4B16A438 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:20:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joeldiaz@nc.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77A43D48 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:20:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joeldiaz@nc.rr.com) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (cpe-024-088-253-079.nc.res.rr.com [24.88.253.79]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0S3K6pm014707 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:20:06 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <70FB710A-0D64-49EA-9CBE-C76C24CB0C39@nc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Joel Diaz Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:20:06 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: unable to dd an image onto a USB floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:20:08 -0000 I've been trying to dump a disk image I downloaded off the internet onto a USB floppy drive. I was reading through dd(1) and at the bottom it pointed me to geom (4) and so I set: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 Then tried the following: dd if=/root/bios.img of=/dev/da0 The drive makes some noise and after a few minutes it just gives up with: dd: /dev/da0: Device busy 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transfered in 2.667840 secs (0 bytes/sec) 'geom disk list da0' gives: Geom name: da0 Providers: 1. Name: da0 Mediasize: 1474560 (1.4M) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 fwsectors: 32 fwheads: 64 dmesg contained the following: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retries Exhausted Opened disk da0 -> 6 This was all done as root with 0640 permissions on /dev/da0 on 6.0- STABLE built Jan 24th. Not sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Joel