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From: jlusa@compuserve.com
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Subject: fdimage fails: sector not found
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>Number:         5663
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       fdimage fails: sector not found
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb  5 18:50:01 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 22 12:54:54 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Apr 15 12:50:01 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Jerry Lusa
>Release:        2.2.1 (Walnut Creek CDROM)
>Organization:
>Environment:
386 DX 25Mhz; 1.44MB floppy; SONY CD-ROM;
>Description:
When attempting to create a boot floppy using either MAKEFLP.BAT or fdimage ..., I get "sector not found".

>How-To-Repeat:
It happens every time.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jlusa@compuserve.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:44:09 -0800

 This sounds like a bad floppy to me. :-/ I would suggest you try:
 
 1. Get a shiny new floppy
 2. Try the floppy image from the latest 2.2.6-Beta on
 22releng.freebsd.org
 3. Make SURE that you transfer the image in binary mode
 4. Report back to freebsd-gnats-submit and let us know if it worked. :)
 
 Good luck,
 
 Doug
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 22 12:54:54 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator says that this problem occurred with an eight year 
old floppy dirve and that after several attemps to find a disk 
that the drive liked everything went ok.  Anybody out there want 
to fix fdimage so that it tries to read a block from floppy 
several times before giving up? 

From: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jlusa@compuserve.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:11:40 -0800

 Ack!  The ftp address is releng22.freebsd.org. 
 
 Sorry for the confusion,
 
 Doug

From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jlusa@compuserve.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/5663: fdimage fails: sector not found
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:40:48 +0200

 Have same problem here. It's 100% repeatable.
 
 Hardware: Adaptec UW SCSI card, 4GB Ultra Wide IBM SCSI Disc, Intel
 440LX motherboard.
 
 What happens:
 1. makeflp formats floppy fine.
 2. However when writing image file it gives 'sector not found.'
 3. Floppy is complete unusable afterwards and needs to be reformatted.
 
 Things tried:
 1. Tried a few floppies. All behave the same.
 2. Swapped floppy drive, didn't help.
 3. Download newest Intel BIOS, didn't help.
 
 Finally I ran makeflop on an NT machine and booted the new machine with
 that floppy. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on it right now.
 
 --
 Groetjes,
 
 Berend. (-:
 email: berend@pobox.com
 
 
 
 
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