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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:58:58 GMT
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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:
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