from "Christoph Kukulies" <k...@kukulies.org>: > Thanks to all.
> Solved. > It was a multiple cause issue: > 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5 > which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me). > 2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 " connector at the end and edge > connector second but last. > 3rd: in combination with 2nd: DS0 jumper issue. > Anyway, I found a cable that had two edge connectors. > In the end it turns out that the floppies that were lying in a drawer for 19 > years, are producing read errors. > I also learnt about fdcontrol. Floppy interface has changed significantly > since Joerg Wunsch and Bruce Evans > worked on them in the early FreeBSD days back in 1995 :) > -- > Christoph Congratulations on solving your floppy problem, but I can understand your problems with floppies. They've gone bad with age for me too. I can read but not write, then I can't read and in most cases can't even reformat. FreeBSD installation sets structure (base.aa, base.ab, base.ac etc.) suggests that one could install from a big set of floppies, but there's no way I could get such a good set of floppies together. I think my 5.25" floppies and drive hold out better than the 3.5" floppies and drives. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
