> For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a > floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, > but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is > gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. > My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't even fdformat the floppy. The format utility runs and marks all tracks bad. If I abort the process, the computer panics. I always fdformat a floppy before running DD because I find that DOS fomatting of the disk does not catch all of the surface errors.
The floppy disks that were marked bad by FreeBSD 9 were successfully formatted by my laptop that runs OpenBSD 5. I was able to successfully DD the image from CDROM to the 'bad' floppy disk from the laptop. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"