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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      0000-Administrator  <root@counterintelligence.cdrom.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Problem 
Message-ID:  <199707140404.VAA00522@counterintelligence.cdrom.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <199707140410.VAA26392@hub.freebsd.org>

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>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.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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