From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 2 03:59:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA00631 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 03:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA00626 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 03:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA15528; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:51:07 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA07492; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:51:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA06507; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199701021147.MAA06507@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:47:35 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <13734.852200758@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 2, 97 02:25:58 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Running a kernel built as of this morning from -current, I can no longer > format floppies - I get a cascade of kernel warning messages: > > jkh@time-> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44 ST1 4 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44 ST1 4 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1) > ... Nothing dramatically has been changed in the floppy driver, not that i could think of. Perhaps you simply try swapping drives first? Well, it happens at the first access to head 1, so perhaps the `top head' of your drive is dead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)