From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 21 03:03:59 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA13380 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 03:03:59 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA13372 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 11:03:57 GMT Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id GAA04222; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 06:05:50 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199412211105.GAA04222@hda.com> Subject: Re: floppy error installing 2.0-R To: lsys@np.ac.sg (SysAdmin - Ng Pheng Siong) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 06:05:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199412210127.BAA06685@freefall.cdrom.com> from "SysAdmin - Ng Pheng Siong" at Dec 20, 94 05:20:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 937 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk SysAdmin - Ng Pheng Siong writes: > > Hi, all. > > I am attempting to install 2.0R on a HP Vectra. Fdisk, disklabel, newfs > etc proceeded ok. While copying the kernel over, I get the following > all over sysinstall's screen: > > recal failed ST0 80 cyl > fd0c: hard error re > ap_hard> ST1 1 > ST2 0 cyl > (...) This looks like the "gateway floppy problem" (it shows up on the Micronics motherboard that had the "gateway keyboard problem"). CORE GROUP- Can someone who knows something about the floppy contact me? I'll be happy to debug this but don't have any documentation on the floppy controller. We should try to solve this before a new install floppy is rolled. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 ++++ New e-mail address. E-mail problems? Tell hdslip@iii.net