Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:49:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911234652.554F-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970912160911.30658@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > > > > I started my machine up fine with the freebsd boot disk to change a few > > things it loaded as normal --- but my floppy has never worked from within > > freebsd, I've reported it a few times but people seem to think it is just > > me. > > It would help if you could answer: > > >>> 1. Floppy formatted under <insert your OS here> on the same > >>> machine. > linux, dos, > >>> 2. FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically > >>> things like checksum errors). hard error reading fsbn xx etc. ST0 44 ST1 20 ST2 20 > > What errors did you get? > > >>> 3. <insert your OS here> can read the entire floppy with no trouble. > the bios, or dos, linux > How did you read the entire floppy? > > Greg >
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