3 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-bugsRe: kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Pro...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| 0000-Administrator | Jul 13, 1997 9:04 pm | |
| Wolfgang Helbig | Jul 14, 1997 1:29 am | |
| J Wunsch | Jul 14, 1997 6:39 am |
| Subject: | Re: kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Problem | |
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| From: | Wolfgang Helbig (hel...@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De) | |
| Date: | Jul 14, 1997 1:29:44 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-bugs | |
The following reply was made to PR kern/4086; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Wolfgang Helbig <hel...@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: ro...@counterintelligence.cdrom.com Cc: Free...@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Problem Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:23:34 +0200 (MET DST)
Number: 4086 Category: kern Synopsis: Floppy Disk Driver Problem Confidential: no Severity: non-critical Priority: low Responsible: freebsd-bugs State: open Class: sw-bug Submitter-Id: current-users Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 13 21:10:01 PDT 1997 Last-Modified: Originator: 0000-Administrator Organization: Release: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386 Environment:
Micron PPro 180, 64M Core , FreeBSD-Stable, Using onboard IDE controller/floppy controller, single 3.5" floppy drive controller detected as a NEC72065B
Description:
fdformat fails also reading from a floppy occassionaly fails message: hard error reading isbn xx of xxxxxx is generated on the console
this error is not isolated to this computer I have heard of other people having it (fdformat will work in 2.1.5 but not 2.2)
How-To-Repeat:
run fdformat on my machine with any floppy disk
Fix:
transfer relevant files to a windoze machine to rawrite images copy files on disk etc.
Another fix might be to use the raw device (i. e. /dev/rfd0) instead of the block device (i. e. fd0) as argument to fdformat.
Audit-Trail: Unformatted: