Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:54:29 -0500 From: "Dennis Jun" <dennisjun@home.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@gtabug.org> Subject: Re: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn Message-ID: <003e01c07f89$2c980020$0300a8c0@wilma> References: <003401c07f83$e79f6440$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Yah, I checked that too, it is 1.44 meg drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Dennis Jun'" <dennisjun@home.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <chat@gtabug.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Disk error 0x4, hard error reading fsbn > 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? > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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