Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:01:52 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: floppy drive Message-ID: <20000907130152.A259@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Hello, I have just discovered a strange problem on my new PC. The mother board is an Abit KT7 hosting a Duron with Via chipset. I can triple boot FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (stock GENERIC kernel) Linux and Win98. Problem: under freebsd i cannot run fdformat fd0. Immediately bad crc errors appear, only some sectors come out with V. Of course i have tried with several floppies and two floppy drives, one of them working very well in another machine. Much stranger: with the same floppy and floppy drive and machine, formatting works perfectly OK with Linux and Win98. To add to the bizarre, once i have a good fdformatted floppy (under linux) i can perfectly read and write to it under freebsd. dd if=/dev/fd0 of= /tmp/flop works and is quite fast. dd if=/tmp/flop of=/dev/fd0 also works. Floppy drives are Sony, and it is the first time i see that on a freebsd machine. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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