On Monday 03 November 2003 09:50, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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.
I can confirm that. See this attached posting from 13. October 2003 -Harry > > # 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
--- Begin Message ---Hi all, dmesg doesn't show anything unusual but trying to mount disks known to be good results in mount: /dev/fd0: Input/output error. Also fdformat does not work. It shows me every sector bad. Btw: How can I format a floppydisk in a USB-drive? fdformat /dev/da0 doesn't work. The USB-drive is fine, also is the standard floppy drive. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #20: Sun Oct 12 23:31:45 CEST 2003 Thanks, -Harry
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