Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:21:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com> To: dgw@liwest.at Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive is going nuts Message-ID: <45006.24.11.146.21.1097256065.squirrel@24.11.146.21> In-Reply-To: <200410052225.14722.dgw@liwest.at> References: <200410052225.14722.dgw@liwest.at>
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Daniela said: > Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on > unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an > ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when > formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I tried to write a file > (which is just a little bit over 1440k in size) to a 1720k formatted floppy > (worked properly in the past), and the result was a complete system lockup. > I had to do a hard reset to bring it back. This is reproducable. > > I'm running 4.10-STABLE. How can I tell whether this is a software bug or > flaky hardware? Try the following, in this order: - Reseat the floppy drive cable - Replace the floppy drive cable - Replace the floppy drive - Try a couple of newer/older FreeBSD versions (just the live CD should work fine) or even a different OS such as Knoppix or (heaven forbid) DOS. If you still have problems after all this, the most likely explanation is that some portion of your motherboard went bad. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
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