Re: Floppy drive is going nuts

From: Charles Ulrich (charles_at_idealso.com)
Date: 10/08/04

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    Daniela said:
    > Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on
    > unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an
    > ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when
    > formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I tried to write a file
    > (which is just a little bit over 1440k in size) to a 1720k formatted floppy
    > (worked properly in the past), and the result was a complete system lockup.
    > I had to do a hard reset to bring it back. This is reproducable.
    >
    > I'm running 4.10-STABLE. How can I tell whether this is a software bug or
    > flaky hardware?

    Try the following, in this order:

    - Reseat the floppy drive cable
    - Replace the floppy drive cable
    - Replace the floppy drive
    - Try a couple of newer/older FreeBSD versions (just the live CD should work
    fine) or even a different OS such as Knoppix or (heaven forbid) DOS.

    If you still have problems after all this, the most likely explanation is that
    some portion of your motherboard went bad. 

    -- 
Charles Ulrich
System Administrator
Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
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