From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 07:11:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829A16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (svr8.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48E443F85 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-onlne.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA57A9C; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:11:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-62-245-209-150.mnet-online.de [62.245.209.150]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730AD154F5; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:11:05 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-15?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=), current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:10:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-03=_GAnp/bPvx/mB/se"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311031611.02817@harrymail> Subject: Re: floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:11:13 -0000 --Boundary-03=_GAnp/bPvx/mB/se Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-01=_BAnp/wKYQtZjy6n" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-01=_BAnp/wKYQtZjy6n Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: body text Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 03 November 2003 09:50, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > anyone else having trouble with floppies? I tried a bunch of > different disks in two different machines (5.1-CURRENT with brand new > drive, 4.9-PRERELEASE with an older but presumed-good drive) and all I > get are I/O errors; fdformat sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, > and any attempt to actually read or write data fails. I can confirm that. See this attached posting from 13. October 2003 =2DHarry > > # uname -a > FreeBSD ada.des.no 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #5: Fri Sep 5 > 22:56:22 CEST 2003 des@ada.des.no:/usr/src/sys/compile/ada i386 # > fdformat fd0 > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y > Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error > # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/fd0c > dd: /dev/fd0c: Input/output error > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 2.634334 secs (0 bytes/sec) > > and the console shows: > > fd0: recal failed ST0 70 cyl 0 > last message repeated 2 times > fd0: recal failed ST0 78 cyl 0 > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) > > on -CURRENT: > > # fdformat fd0 > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y > Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEVVVVVV done. > Errors encountered: > Cyl Head Sect Error > 66 1 12 wrong cylinder (format mismatch) > > (although a previous run succeeded) > > I'm having a hard time believing this is a hardware problem, although > there might conceivably be an environmental factor which affects both > systems since they are in the same room. > > DES --Boundary-01=_BAnp/wKYQtZjy6n Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="test" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test" From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: current@freebsd.org Subject: floppydisk broken? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:14:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_FGsi/C1i3XfUXb7"; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310131715.17844@harrymail> Status: RO X-Status: S X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: --Boundary-02=_FGsi/C1i3XfUXb7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Hi all, dmesg doesn't show anything unusual but trying to mount disks known to be g= ood=20 results in mount: /dev/fd0: Input/output error. Also fdformat does not work. It shows me every sector bad. Btw: How can I format a floppydisk in a USB-drive? fdformat /dev/da0 doesn'= t=20 work. The USB-drive is fine, also is the standard floppy drive. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #20: Sun Oct 12 23:31:45 CEST 2003 Thanks, =2DHarry --Boundary-02=_FGsi/C1i3XfUXb7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/isGFBylq0S4AzzwRAktYAKCOIhqiTBxYX4rnf4AZ4hhctNucywCfU+PU +rdBWrwfysOITV35rukRa/U= =RBQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_FGsi/C1i3XfUXb7-- --Boundary-01=_BAnp/wKYQtZjy6n-- --Boundary-03=_GAnp/bPvx/mB/se Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/pnAGBylq0S4AzzwRAlE7AJ4uURbi/BHcu+lzDFpQifZwV1iDigCghics 6w3Sv8LoVxyycILrCmLykzI= =84mW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-03=_GAnp/bPvx/mB/se--