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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
