Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 21:39:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer" <root@acromail.ml.org>, "J. Weatherbee" <jamil@acromail.ml.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970904213127.1712A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970905112703.55518@lemis.com>
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I'm not an idiot. I wouldn't report a problem unless I had methodically determined the likely source of the problem, this has been going on for months and yes I would say I have tried at least 40 different disks, they weren't from the same manufacturer, in the same box, or in the same environment exposed to heavy electromagnetic radiation, i didn't leave them in the sun --- I'm telling you that I will bet 50 pesos this is either a buggy piece of motherboard hardware (micron) or more likely a buggy driver (as other operating systems [for example linux] do not have this problem) I also have a duplicate installation on my home machine and the floppy works fine [i.e. the floppy driver is doing something wierd], it is a different motherboard. So the overall conclusion is that for some reason the floppy driver is doing something (probably some optimization) causing it to fail. I am not the only person to have this problem i ran into someone on #freebsd that said that when he went for 2.1 to 2.2 some of his machines floppy drives stopped working --- yes I have also looked at the parameters in the kernel and played with them accordingly --- What info do I need to figure out this problem? On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 06:56:09PM -0700, J. Weatherbee - Chief Systems Engineer wrote: > > > >>> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 42 of 40-43 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 20<bad_crc> > >>> ST2 20<bad_crc> cyl 1 hd 0 sec 7) > >> > >> This is saying that your disk is bad. Have you tried formatting a > >> floppy and then reading/writing it? > > > > My disk is not bad it does this during an fdformat also on any floppy and > > yes I have tried using the fd0.1440 and raw as parameters. > > Have you tried it with another floppy disk? > > Greg >
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