Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912075116.3649A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> I'm looking for indications which would point towards the driver. One
> of these might be:
>
> 1. Floppy formatted under <insert your OS here> on the same machine.
> 2. FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically
> things like checksum errors).
> 3. <insert your OS here> can read the entire floppy with no trouble.
>
> If you can give me hard evidence of such occurrences, I'd like to hear
> from you. I know that plenty of people can tell me that they've had
> occurrences of (2), maybe in conjunction with (1), but unless you can
> prove (3) as well, I don't want to hear from you.
Here is a problem I had and what I included in a
previous question.
-=*
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT)
Heres one I can't find in the archives.
I tried to mount a 720Kb DOS Floppy with:
/sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
today which returned an input/output error, and returned to
tcsh prompt. I was interupted and while dealing with that I
turned to notice the following.
Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
instruction pointer = 0x8: 0xf010fa91
stack pointer = 0z10: 0xefbffee4
frame pointer = 0x10: 0xefbfff0c
code segment = base 0x0, Limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1 ,gran1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, iopl=0
current process = 192(sh)
interrupt mask net tty bio
panic: general protection fault
syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up
(this may not be accurate format but the content should be)
This was a freshly formatted disk with no bad sectors report-
ed.
# /sbin/mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.720 /mnt
Jul 11 20:35:27 kevin /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn
16 of 16-31 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0
sec 17)
As you might imagine, after the prior incident, I did a
clean shut down immediately as to avoid another panic.
Another consideration I had was that it was kernel config.
Jul 12 13:54:02 kevin /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
Although I can format a 720 without problem. ???
*=-
Hope this helps.
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