anyone else having trouble with floppies? I tried a bunch of different disks in two different machines (5.1-CURRENT with brand new drive, 4.9-PRERELEASE with an older but presumed-good drive) and all I get are I/O errors; fdformat sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and any attempt to actually read or write data fails.
# uname -a FreeBSD ada.des.no 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #5: Fri Sep 5 22:56:22 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/ada i386 # fdformat fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0c dd: /dev/fd0c: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 2.634334 secs (0 bytes/sec) and the console shows: fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 last message repeated 2 times fd0: recal failed ST0 78<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck,drive_notrdy> cyl 0 fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) on -CURRENT: # fdformat fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEVVVVVV done. Errors encountered: Cyl Head Sect Error 66 1 12 wrong cylinder (format mismatch) (although a previous run succeeded) I'm having a hard time believing this is a hardware problem, although there might conceivably be an environmental factor which affects both systems since they are in the same room. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
