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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!cls!dcsborg!dcs From: dcs@dcsborg.cls.com (David C. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Message-ID: <wk2yRc1w165w@dcsborg.cls.com> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 94 06:25:19 CDT References: <CEB.94Aug28010313@netcom4.netcom.com> Organization: Borgmeister's, Houston, TX Lines: 25 ceb@netcom4.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) writes: > In article <1994Aug26.044412.20941@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Stev > Peter Howlett (b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca) wrote: > : Howdy, > : Has anyone ever seen this? > : 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 > > This pretty much looks like a bad spot on the floppy to me. At > a guess ;) I would say at cyl 1 head 1 sector 15. > Try making a new cpio floppy on a 100% error free floppy. > When I got this, I just re-made the floppy, and it went away. Scary, > huh? > I just went through this problem this week while trying to install. After making/remaking the disks a couple of times on the machine I was installing on, I got another set of new disks, and created the disks on the OS/2 PS/2 machine in my office. When using these install disks, the install went smooth. Maybe the 3.5" floppy on the install machine (Gateway 486/25) is really crappy. I dunno. Hope this helps! Dave