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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: FreeBSD floppy problems Message-ID: <vanepp.755464295@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 19:11:35 GMT Lines: 14 I am in the process of installing FreeBSD onto a 386 with an Adaptec 1542b which is also running the floppy drives (1 3.5 and 1 5.25 if it matters). It appears there is something wrong with the 3.5 floppy code (or the hardware). Mounting a boot floppy on /dev/fd0a onto /mnt and copying a new kernel to it results in a kernel that is the right size but which has a wrong (and wrong in different ways if copied again). It looks to me like the write is not completing correctly (although reads seem to since the read checksum is always the same after a write). Is this a known problem (it seems unlikely ...)? This is FreeBSD 1.02, and both the GENERICAH kernel from the patch kit and a rebuilt kernel do the same thing. Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada