I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT
I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on
order. It has not arrived yet.
I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault.
To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if accessed
as a FreeBSD file system. It is ok if accessed as raw read and write, or
using Windows NT.
kern, fixit, mfsroot and drivers floppies are from 5.0 DP2 cdrom.
Summary
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OK fdformat -v
FAIL fsck /dev/fd0 on fixit floppy
OK fsck /dev/fd0 on mfsroot floppy
FAIL fsck /dev/fd0 on drivers floppy
FAIL fixit, mount on /mnt and "tar cvf testtar /mnt"
FAIL fixit, mount on /mnt and "find /mnt"
OK boot up on kern floppy, load mfsroot and use sysinstall
FAIL boot up on kern floppy, load mfsroot and use fixit floppy
OK dd if=/dev/fd0
OK mcopy (part of mtools package) large files to and from a MSDOS floppy
OK Windows NT, copy hundreds of small files to and from a
subdirectory on an MSDOS floppy. This involves lots of seeks.
FAIL mcopy hundreds of small files from MSDOS floppy (created by NT)
FAIL mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 and cp hundreds of file from
MSDOS floppy as created by NT
OK Windows NT, format a:
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