From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 01:40:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA20852 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 01:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA20840 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 01:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA14365; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:03 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605060839.SAA14365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: problem with floppy drive (please help) To: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:02 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605031309.WAA03938@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> from "Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?=" at May 3, 96 10:09:15 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= stands accused of saying: > > Today, I made an attempt to use my floppy disk drive for the > first time in two months or so. (It was working OK last time I used > it.) Have you updated your kernel since then? > When I tried to fdformat, it says: > > # fdformat /dev/rfd0 > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/rfd0'? (y/n): y > Processing ---------------------------------------- > fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error > > And, on console: > > isa_dmastart: channel 2 busy That should be fairly harmless. > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) That's bad. Did you get any extra stuff (fsbn etc.)? > Could anyone suggest what may be causing this and what I should check? If you have DOS on the machine, check that it can still talk to the drive. Check that you can read another floppy. That's a start... > Masafumi NAKANE, Keio Univ., Dept. of Environmental Information -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[