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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FDFORMAT / "input ready timeout" Date: 5 Oct 1996 20:14:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <536fj5$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5336jk$5un@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rthomasii@aol.com (RThomasii) wrote: > I'm trying to do a "fdformat /dev/rfd0" and I get messages like: > > fdc0: Input ready timeout > fdc0: Input ready timeout > fdc0: Input ready timeout > fd0: seek to cyl 34 failed; am at cyl 20 (st0=0x20) > fdc0: hard error writing fsbn 1224 (no status) Are you perchance using FreeBSD 2.1R on a mainboard with the UMC8669F IO chip? Are you positive that your controller and drive work correctly at all? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)