From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 04:07:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA29546 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 04:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (root@tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp [133.246.32.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA29525 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 04:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (masafumi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp (8.7.5/3.4W4-SMTP) with ESMTP id UAA00285; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:05:43 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199605061105.UAA00285@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with floppy drive (please help) From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= Reply-To: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:02 +0930 (CST)" References: <199605060839.SAA14365@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.1, Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 20:05:43 +0900 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Michael Smith Subject: Re: problem with floppy drive (please help) Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 18:09:02 +0930 (CST) > Have you updated your kernel since then? Yes, I'm running kernel from around 05/03. > > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) > > That's bad. Did you get any extra stuff (fsbn etc.)? No. > 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... Ahhh, I should've thought of this. Well, I don't have DOS on the machine. So I tried to boot from a DOS floppy, and it went on like there's no disk in the drive. ;-P I guess, now I have to check the floppy drive itself. Thanks for your suggestion. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Masafumi NAKANE, Keio Univ., Dept. of Environmental Information E-Mail : t94303mn@sfc.keio.ac.jp / max@sfc.wide.ad.jp [URL] : http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~t94303mn