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 acce
Further to this problem, I booted CURRENT- 20 October 2002 and mounted the
fixit floppy. Trying "tar cvf test /mnt" gave the usual errors as before.
Mounting the fixit.flp as a memory disk using
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fixit.flp -u 4
mount -oro /dev/md4 /mnt
and trying tar as before gave no erro
The fixit.flp from the 5.0 DP2 cdrom appears to be unusable. When I
attempt to use it after booting from kern.flp it comes up with errors of
the form:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2528 of 2528-2530 (ST0 40 \
ST1 4 ST2 10 cyl 70 hd 0 sec 9)
accompanied by ominous clicking noises from the flo
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