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Subject: Bad *.flp files and and raw write program 
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>Number:         12981
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Bad *.flp files and and raw write program
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug  4 21:40:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu Aug 5 11:26:31 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 23 01:11:40 PDT 2001
>Originator:     David Vallentyne
>Release:        3.2
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
>Description:
When I use the raw write program you supplied with your boot images it actually creates bad sectors on my floppy disk.  When I use annoter version of raw write with you boot images, raw write stops part way though and reports that there is a bad sector, however there is aren't any bad boot on the disk.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 5 11:26:31 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
The suggested utility for use with floppy images is fdimage.exe, which 
is also supplied on CD-ROMs, and is available at FreeBSD mirror sites. 

From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@webweaving.org>
To: dvditto@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/12981: Bad *.flp files and and raw write program 
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:12:46 +0000 (GMT)

 > When I use the raw write program you supplied with your boot images
 > it actually creates bad sectors on my floppy disk.  When I use
 > annoter version of raw write with you boot images, raw write stops
 > part way though and reports that there is a bad sector, however
 > there is aren't any bad boot on the disk. >How-To-Repeat:
 
 How did you verify that the floppy is ok? Did you try another floppy?
 
 It is impossible for a normal utility to create bad blocks on a floppy.
 If you want to check whether you have bad blocks try the following
 command:
 
 	dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1440
 
 That should produce an error on reading the floppy.
 
 Nick
 -- 
 e-Mail: n_hibma@webweaving.org
 
 
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