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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Date: 6 Sep 1994 23:51:02 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 38 Message-ID: <34iv96$ik4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <3453os$sru@steel.interlog.com> <3486q6$dr6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <34a91e$h2f@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <34a91e$h2f@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca>, Peter Howlett <phowlett@angus.ASG.unb.ca> wrote: >Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: >: >: fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 62 of 64-71 >: >: (ST0 44<abnrml,top_head> ST1 20<bad_crc> ST2<bad_crc> cyl 1 hd 1 sec 15 > >: These are floppy errors. > >I suppose you mean that these are errors that are generated by the >floppy device driver. Yep. These errors are caused by the device driver, and mean either a bad floppy OR a bad device driver. Of course, I'd like to think it is bad hardware being an EE. :-) >These are NOT however, errors with the floppy >disks themselves. I find it a little hard to believe that every floppy >I've tried for the past week and a half (Sony's, 3M's and generics) >are all bad. Then theres the fact that other operating systems dont >seem to have any problems reading and writing to them. Do these other OS's reside on the same hardware? People have written floppies with one set of hardware that will not work, and then taken the exact same media and written with a different computer and it worked fine. I find that to get the install floppies to work ALL the time, I have to reformat under DOS every time I re-write them. Again, this could be a picky driver, but it seems to do the trick. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.