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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!tasman.cc.utas.edu.au!rob From: rob@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Robert Duncombe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Floppy drive problems Date: 12 Feb 1995 13:10:25 GMT Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3hl1c1$rbj@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: tasman.cc.utas.edu.au Summary: Problems with hard errors on fd0 Keywords: floppy drive I tried to install FreeBSD off the Walnut Creek cdrom, when my system booted it would load the kernel off the floppy then when it changes root device to /dev/fd0 it shows the following error: fd0c hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (ST0 40 <abnrml> ST1 1 <no_asm> ST0 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17 panic : can not mount root. I then swapped the 3 1/2 floppy drive for a 5 1/4 (after trying several floppies, formats and a boot disk that was written on another pc) and everything works fine. After installation I reinstalled the 3 1/2 floppy drive and when I tried to mount a disk it displayed a hard error, the 5 1/4 does not display an error. Is there a problem with my 3 1/2 floppy drive (its only 3 months old)? Has anyone experienced this problem? Robert Duncombe Email: Robert.Duncombe@AG.AUSGOVAG.TELEMEMO.AU P.S. could people please reply by mail as I do not normally have ready access to news. Thank you.