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>
> This patch does indeed fix the writing of floppies. However, fdformat(1)
> still fails as follows:
That is very strange. My patch only applies to formatting floppies. It
did not touch any routine used in writing a floppy. I have no idea at
this time what is causing your other problems.
I am unable to write to a floppy at this time. I'm not seeing any
errors, but nothings is getting written.
Jim Bloom
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>
> ttyp7:--ROOT--@mrynet (22): fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y
> Processing EE^C------------------------------------
>
> with /var/log/messages indicating:
> Mar 24 13:51:13 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-17 (ST0
>40<abnrml> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0
> cyl 0 hd 0 sec 2)
> Mar 24 13:51:13 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-17 (ST0
>40<abnrml> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0
> cyl 0 hd 0 sec 2)
> Mar 24 13:51:13 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 18-35 (ST0
>44<abnrml,top_head> ST1
> 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 2)
> Mar 24 13:51:13 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 18 of 18-35 (ST0
>44<abnrml,top_head> ST1
> 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 2)
> Mar 24 13:51:14 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 36 of 36-53 (ST0
>40<abnrml> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0
> cyl 1 hd 0 sec 2)
> Mar 24 13:51:14 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 36 of 36-53 (ST0
>40<abnrml> ST1 4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0
> cyl 1 hd 0 sec 2)
> (and continuing).
>
> Additionally, reading a floppy returns errors for any read:
> (This is a freshly formatted floppy verified on other machines)
>
> ttyp7:--ROOT--@mrynet (7): dd if=/dev/rfd0.1440 | wc
> dd: /dev/rfd0.1440: Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 2.395566 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 0 0 0
>
> with /var/log/messages indicating:
> Mar 24 14:04:28 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1
>4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0
> sec 2)
> Mar 24 14:04:38 mrynet /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1
>4<sec_not_fnd> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0
> sec 2)
>
> Thanks,
> -scott
> --
> Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> MRY Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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