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From: 0000-Administrator  <root@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Floppy Disk Driver Problem 
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>Number:         4086
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Floppy Disk Driver Problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 13 21:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 12 14:40:51 MEST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 12 14:45:44 MEST 1997
>Originator:     0000-Administrator
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

Micron PPro 180, 64M Core , FreeBSD-Stable, Using onboard IDE
controller/floppy controller, single 3.5" floppy drive controller detected
as a NEC72065B

>Description:

	

fdformat fails also reading from a floppy occassionaly fails
message: hard error reading isbn xx of xxxxxx is generated on the console

this error is not isolated to this computer I have heard of other people
having it (fdformat will work in 2.1.5 but not 2.2)

>How-To-Repeat:

	

run fdformat on my machine with any floppy disk


>Fix:
	
	

transfer relevant files to a windoze machine to rawrite images copy files
on disk etc.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To: root@counterintelligence.cdrom.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Problem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:23:34 +0200 (MET DST)

 > 
 > >Number:         4086
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       Floppy Disk Driver Problem
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 13 21:10:01 PDT 1997
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     0000-Administrator
 > >Organization:
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
 > >Environment:
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 > Micron PPro 180, 64M Core , FreeBSD-Stable, Using onboard IDE
 > controller/floppy controller, single 3.5" floppy drive controller detected
 > as a NEC72065B
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 > fdformat fails also reading from a floppy occassionaly fails
 > message: hard error reading isbn xx of xxxxxx is generated on the console
 > 
 > this error is not isolated to this computer I have heard of other people
 > having it (fdformat will work in 2.1.5 but not 2.2)
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 > run fdformat on my machine with any floppy disk
 > 
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 	
 > 	
 > 
 > transfer relevant files to a windoze machine to rawrite images copy files
 > on disk etc.
 
 Another fix might be to use the raw device (i. e. /dev/rfd0) instead
 of the block device (i. e. fd0) as argument to fdformat.
 
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
 

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: root@counterintelligence.cdrom.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/4086: Floppy Disk Driver Problem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:12:15 +0200

 As 0000-Administrator wrote:
 
 > fdformat fails also reading from a floppy occassionaly fails
 > message: hard error reading isbn xx of xxxxxx is generated on the console
 
 Can you please be more specific about this?  The above is not enough
 to handle this PR, sorry.
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 
 > run fdformat on my machine with any floppy disk
 
 So give me your machine, please. :-)
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 12 14:40:51 MEST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  

No response to feedback requests, and problem not reproducible.  It's 
likely that all the mails never got to the originator due to 
specifying a wrong email address (@counterintelligence.cdrom.com). 
>Unformatted:
