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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:16:45 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "'Dennis Jun'" <dennisjun@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@gtabug.org>
Subject:   RE: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn
Message-ID:  <003401c07f83$e79f6440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <001a01c07e85$ec793350$0300a8c0@wilma>

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This may be silly, but have you checked the BIOS to
make sure it doesen't think your 1.4Mb floppy is a
1.2Mb?  Also, try it with a bootable DOS floppy.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dennis Jun
>Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 3:59 PM
>To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@gtabug.org
>Subject: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn
>
>
>Hello all!
>
>I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE yesterday but I got the
>following error when I tried to boot up my kern.flp:
>
>Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x10)
>
>At first I thought I just had a bad floppy so I made another image on
>another floppy but I had same error. Then I tried 4 other 
>floppies and I
>still got the same problem. Plus I also tried these same floppies in a
>Win2k box and they seemed alright. Then I thought it might have been my
>actual floppy disk drive so I replaced that with one that I knew that
>worked for sure. Same problem. Then I thought it could have 
>been the image
>itself, so I made an image of a previous STABLE image but same problem.
>Then I tried the 4.2-RELEASE image. Same thing. I'm stumped.
>
>Fortunately I had a previous install on this box. I tried to mount the
>floppy drive and I got this error:
>
><sunnie> ~# mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
>mount: Input/output error
>
>and my /var/messages had this:
>
>Jan 14 18:43:02 sunnie /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 
>18 of 16-31
>(ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1)
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
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