Floppy problems in 5.3
Sirs: I'm having a problem doing newfs to a floppy on a new installation (5.3-stable). I tried changing to a new floppy and get the same thing. # fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing done. # bsdlabel -B -w /dev/fd0 fd1440 # newfs /dev/fd0 newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2879: Input/output error --or-- # newfs_msdos /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 2840 sectors in 355 FAT12 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=1 nft=2 rde=512 sec=2880 mid=0xf0 spf=2 spt=18 hds=2 hid=0 newfs_msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error # If I take a linux formatted floppy, mount it, then ls on the mount point, I can get the dir listing. Or if I less a file on the floppy I can read the contents. Any attempt to use vi or to write to the floppy fails with another Input/Output error. Of course, the same drives and floppies mount, read, and write under Minix, Slackware-10.0 and FreeBSD 4.11. # uname -a FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # devfs.conf contains... # allow fd0 [devfsrules_fd0=10] add path fd0 add path fd0 mode 0660 and rc.conf contains... #devfs_system_ruleset=devfsrules_fd0 I noticed in UPDATING that floppy under pci was broken at one point. Is that still the case and am I seeintg that broken-ness? Can you help? TIA. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppy problems in 5.3
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # bsdlabel -B -w /dev/fd0 fd1440 # newfs /dev/fd0 newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2879: Input/output error ... # newfs_msdos /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 2840 sectors in 355 FAT12 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=1 nft=2 rde=512 sec=2880 mid=0xf0 spf=2 spt=18 hds=2 hid=0 newfs_msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error # Do you get anything in dmesg from these? If I take a linux formatted floppy, mount it, then ls on the mount point, I can get the dir listing. Or if I less a file on the floppy I can read the contents. Any attempt to use vi or to write to the floppy fails with another Input/Output error. Of course, the same drives and floppies mount, read, and write under Minix, Slackware-10.0 and FreeBSD 4.11. Tried that floppy drive with a different OS, or tried a different drive with FreeBSD? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp7a1HhFMe7C.pgp Description: PGP signature
