Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 05:53:34 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709121053.FAA14361@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:10:14 %2B0930." <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com>
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Installed a new MB and realized I had not tested the floppy very much:
% fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y
Processing EEEEEEEE-------------------------------
I actually let it run to E's all across. And tried it again with the
same results.
Then tried:
% fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y
Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
Interesting. Was it operator error? Should always use rfd0? Lets try
fdformat while the serial port is active:
% fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y
Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
During the above this was copied from "systat -v"
39 fdc0 irq6
296 sio1 irq3
Then I tried "fdformat /dev/fd0.1440" again and got all V's. By that
time the serial port wasn't busy.
So this time I kicked off bonnie and got
51 pci irq9 (Adaptec 2940)
21 fdc0 irq6
blks 5245 (sd0, "SEAGATE ST32550N 0021")
Processing EVEVEVEEVEVVVVEVVVVVEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
The V's were in the "Reading intelligently..." phase.
Ultimately bonnie reported:
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 4388 44.6 3947 9.3 1418 3.8 2484 28.1 2520 3.7 66.3 1.2
Not sure what is going on. MB is an Asus P6NP5, PPro 166/512k. Floppy
is a Mitsumi.
% uname -a
FreeBSD nospam.hiwaay.net 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 1 16:00:14 CDT 1997 root@nospam.hiwaay.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/PPRO166 i386
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