Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:21:19 +0200 From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com> To: "'Robert Nordier'" <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: "freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org" <freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: RE: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found Message-ID: <01BD693A.8B54C4D0.berend@pobox.com>
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On Wednesday, April 15, 1998 10:41 PM, Robert Nordier [SMTP:rnordier@iafrica.com] wrote: > > Have same problem here. It's 100% repeatable. > > > > Hardware: Adaptec UW SCSI card, 4GB Ultra Wide IBM SCSI Disc, Intel > > 440LX motherboard. > > > > What happens: > > 1. makeflp formats floppy fine. > > 2. However when writing image file it gives 'sector not found.' > > 3. Floppy is complete unusable afterwards and needs to be reformatted. > > > > Things tried: > > 1. Tried a few floppies. All behave the same. > > 2. Swapped floppy drive, didn't help. > > 3. Download newest Intel BIOS, didn't help. > > > > Finally I ran makeflop on an NT machine and booted the new machine with > > that floppy. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on it right now. > > Please let us know which version you are using (just type `fdimage' with > no arguments), and send output of the '-d' (debug) option. It's the fdimage included with FreeBSD 2.2.5 (the one from 2.2.2 doesn't work either). It says: Copyright (c) 1996-7 Robert Nordier and nothing else. The -d option doesn't work. Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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