Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error Date: 8 Sep 1994 00:00:16 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 53 Message-ID: <34lk6g$d44@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <3486q6$dr6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <34a91e$h2f@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <34iv96$ik4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <34iv96$ik4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: [floppy errors stuff] >Yep. These errors are caused by the device driver, and mean either a >bad floppy OR a bad device driver. Of course, I'd like to think it is >bad hardware being an EE. :-) Hmm, could be, I'd like to blame it on the drivers though.. :-) I just swapped an IDE controller out for a AHA1542B and I'm getting wads-o-errors on the floppy. I'm going to swap back to the IDE just to see if it was that or the new kernel. Note that I'm using NetBSD v1.0_beta. (yeah, one *them* :-) ) I'd like to believe my adaptec, my buslogic, my floppy drives, and several of my floppies, are good! :-) >Do these other OS's reside on the same hardware? People have written >floppies with one set of hardware that will not work, and then taken >the exact same media and written with a different computer and it >worked fine. I'm going to experiment with this with IDE, SCSI, etc. I was getting this error when I was stupidly doing "disklabel -w -r fd0", when I did "disklabel -w -r fd0a" it didn't give the error. But! I still get cp'ing stuff *after* I've mounted the drive! I'll also note, that I had the system really hammering on the SCSI drive one day (well, night) and if *refused* to mount one of my disks. "io error" or something. Later, when the scsi stopped pounding it worked fine. I have the DMA speed set on the default (low) speed and I'm not sure about the bus timing (default AFAIK) >I find that to get the install floppies to work ALL the time, I have to >reformat under DOS every time I re-write them. Again, this could be >a picky driver, but it seems to do the trick. I'm being cynical when I say: "Why should I have to boot f**kin' DOS to use a floppy under BSD?" :-) I know, I can write the f**kin' fd.c myself!!! Seriously though, it seems like something broke recently. (or a while ago and I just noticed it!) I'll try the "format it under DOS to get it to work" trick... (hey and good work on everything other than fd.c :-) :-) ) -Andrew PS. geesh I was just kidding already! -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================