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Date:      Sat, 20 Mar 1999 10:14:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/10695: fd fails for all operations
Message-ID:  <199903201814.KAA04915@ix.netcom.com>

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>Number:         10695
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       fd fails for all operations
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 20 10:20:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Dean
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

4.0-current SMP of Tue Mar  9 08:31:14 PST 1999.

>Description:

All operations to fd fail.  The drive works with DOS.
With known-good floppies:

# mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy
mount_msdos: /dev/fd0a: Input/output error
# dmesg
<snip>
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status)

# fdformat fd0.1440
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/rfd0'? (y/n): y
Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error
# dmesg
<snip>
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status)


>How-To-Repeat:

mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy
-or-
fdformat fd0.1440
-or-
mount /dev/fd0a /mnt

>Fix:
	
	


>Release-Note:
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