From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 16 05:32:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22442 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 05:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from NIH2WAAE (smtp5.site1.csi.com [149.174.183.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22436 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 05:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: from mail pickup service by csi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:31:33 -0400 Received: from auke.deboer (pd03-142.par.compuserve.com [195.232.67.142]) by hil-img-ims-4.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/IMS-1.2) with ESMTP id IAA02867; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmach (bmach.deboer [192.168.33.3]) by auke.deboer (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA05046; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:21:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:21:20 +0200 Message-ID: <01BD693A.8B54C4D0.berend@pobox.com> From: Berend de Boer To: "'Robert Nordier'" Cc: "freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org" Subject: RE: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:21:19 +0200 Organization: NederWare X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, April 15, 1998 10:41 PM, Robert Nordier [SMTP:rnordier@iafrica.com] wrote: > > Have same problem here. It's 100% repeatable. > > > > Hardware: Adaptec UW SCSI card, 4GB Ultra Wide IBM SCSI Disc, Intel > > 440LX motherboard. > > > > What happens: > > 1. makeflp formats floppy fine. > > 2. However when writing image file it gives 'sector not found.' > > 3. Floppy is complete unusable afterwards and needs to be reformatted. > > > > Things tried: > > 1. Tried a few floppies. All behave the same. > > 2. Swapped floppy drive, didn't help. > > 3. Download newest Intel BIOS, didn't help. > > > > Finally I ran makeflop on an NT machine and booted the new machine with > > that floppy. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on it right now. > > Please let us know which version you are using (just type `fdimage' with > no arguments), and send output of the '-d' (debug) option. It's the fdimage included with FreeBSD 2.2.5 (the one from 2.2.2 doesn't work either). It says: Copyright (c) 1996-7 Robert Nordier and nothing else. The -d option doesn't work. Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message