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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Message-ID: <jmonroyCwEo6A.57C@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <jmonroyCvozLK.5q9@netcom.com> <34v4gjINNjj5@bonnie.sax.de> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:58:58 GMT Lines: 43 J Wunsch (j@uriah.sax.de) wrote: : jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: : >Peter Howlett (b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca) 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 : > To make this short, it is quite possible that one of : > the applications you ran decided that it could read : > more than 15 sectors on a track, which on a 1.2 meg : > diskette is not possible. [...] : Impossible. Attempting to read a non-existent sector would have caused : a `sector not found' error. (The index hole passed twice without being : able to find any sector ID field containing the requested sector : number.) Furthermore, sector 15 should really be on a 1.2 MB diskette, : since sector numbering starts at 1. : Look, I don't have time to diagnose this problem. I did not write the driver, so I really don't care id you beleive what I have to say or not. For my best comments on this whole sillyness, get my FDC driver from: NEWS FLASH ---------- Due to popular demand, QIC NEWS and Notes is proud to announce the FTP availablility of this publication. All back issues will be available after 8-12-93 in directory: Official FTP site ---------------- etext.archive.umich.edu : /pub/Zines/QIC-News -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________