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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:47:35 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject:   Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work?
Message-ID:  <199701021147.MAA06507@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <13734.852200758@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 2, 97 02:25:58 am"

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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<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 1)
> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 16-19 (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> 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. ;-)



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