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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: Problem with second floppy drive... Message-ID: <vanepp.732741997@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <C47KoI.9Ko@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 19:26:37 GMT Lines: 36 peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I'm trying to get back to a working system, reinstalling from scratch. I've >installed from Nate's pk0.2.1+ boot images, and that worked (the 0.2 ones >didn't), but to do that I had to install a 3.5" floppy in as drive 0. I >did that, and it booted fine (yay) though it seemed to think I was working >on a color monitor when I booted it off a floppy. I installed, it came up >(and recognised my mono monitor this time) and I went to pull in the system. >No dice. I get errors when I try to read fd1: >fd1: hard error (ST0 41 ST1 4 ST2 0 ST3 0 cyl 0 hd 16 sec 2) >Which is pretty odd, since floppies don't usually have 16 heads. Anyone >have any ideas? The drive works fine under diagnostics and worked before >installing this kernel (I just used it to install pk0.1). >-- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. > `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? > 'U` >Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä. I have been able to duplicate this by putting a write protected floppy into the drive and then mounting it on /mnt, and cd to it. It appears that update tries to write to it, gets unhappy and may then do ugly things (at one point, df said /mnt was there but umount said it wasn't mounted ...) I don't know whether this is a bug or standard Unix semantics with a R/O volume mounted as a R/W file system. Once these errors start coming up, I tend to smack the forehead and do a fastboot in case things have become confused and are about to eat the hard disk. Having found this, perhaps I can now get my new kernel with a streaming Archive driver onto a floppy and dump the system to tape so I will be less unhappy if something eats the hard disk ... Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada