Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:43:31 GMT From: Brad Allen <braddo@tranceaddict.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/119618: Double Density Disks do not work correctly Message-ID: <200801130543.m0D5hVhn011191@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200801130550.m0D5o2xt084559@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 119618 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Double Density Disks do not work correctly >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 13 05:50:02 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brad Allen >Release: 7.0-RC1 i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD pc.braddo 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #2: Sat Jan 5 16:04:10 EST 2008 root@pc.braddo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 >Description: Double Density disks generally do not work, they fail to mount with an input/output error and if a format is attempted the drive sounds as if it's reading from track 0 to 79 trying to find the other half of the non-existant high density disk. On the very odd occasion that they do work, it is EXTREMELY slow (at least 2 minutes to copy a file of a few kilobytes) because it seems to be seeking from the start to the end of the disk repeatedly. >How-To-Repeat: Try to format or mount a double density disk. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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