Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:41:55 -0500 From: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> To: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy Message-ID: <3E437153.20004@ameritech.net> References: <3E436DBE.3020200@ameritech.net> <200302071035.31297.will@unfoldings.net>
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Highly doubtful,
The drive works in DOS a-ok. I've tried throwing it on other fd
cables and other fd cable slots (fd1) to check. Still, the same message
is shown.
D
Willie Viljoen wrote:
>Chances are your drive is busted, try reading the same floppy in another
>machine or with another OS, if that works, try rewiring :)
>
>On Friday 07 February 2003 10:26, northern snowfall wrote:
>
>> Morning, all;
>> I'm trying to get a Mitsumi D509V3 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive
>> to work on FreeBSD 4.2.6. The operating system reports the drive
>> is available and definitely makes contact with the drive (visual
>> confirmation: LED). The issue is during read/write from the
>> drive. Error message:
>> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status)
>> I have the proper drive type set in the BIOS. FreeBSD seems to
>> agree according to the dmesg:
>> fd0: <1200-KB 5.25" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>> I've been doing simple read tests using:
>> dd if=/dev/fd0 count=1 bs=512 | hexdump ;
>> Any suggestions?
>> Don
>>
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