Re: floppy disk controller broken

2009-02-11 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 18 September 2008 3:53:06 am Michel Talon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:13:39PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:04:33 am Michel Talon wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk > > > controller

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:45:29 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remove "device udbp" from your kernel configuration and try again. > The problem with bulk pipes is somewhat well-known at this point. This machine have a GENERIC kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD kg-work2.kg

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:44:03 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will try ufdformat on a different machine now. Ok, on a different machine[1], it works without problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD kg-i82.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Wed May 28 15:59:38 CEST

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:33:40 +0100 > "Bruce M. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone was going to pick this up, finish it off, and commit it, but > > I haven't heard back from them: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:33:40 +0100 "Bruce M. Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone was going to pick this up, finish it off, and commit it, but > I haven't heard back from them: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/tools/ufdformat/ It compiled fine on FreeBSD 7.0-stable: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Michel Talon wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Michel Talon wrote: > > > > Moreover, trying to write to the floppy: > > > > niobe# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 conv=noerror > > > > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > > > 5+0

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Michel Talon wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Michel Talon wrote: > > > Moreover, trying to write to the floppy: > > > niobe# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 conv=noerror > > > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > > 5+0 records in > > > 4+0 records out > > > 2048 bytes transferred in 4.054404

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
You could try formatting the floppy in a USB drive. Someone was going to pick this up, finish it off, and commit it, but I haven't heard back from them: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/tools/ufdformat/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:32:50PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:18:45PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Michel Talon wrote: > > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > > It looks like the ioctl to format a track used to never report > > failures from > > > > the controller. The

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Michel Talon
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:18:45PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Michel Talon wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > It looks like the ioctl to format a track used to never report failures > from > > > the controller. The newer driver does. What I've done with fdformat is > to > > > make it

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Michel Talon wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > It looks like the ioctl to format a track used to never report failures > > from > > the controller. The newer driver does. What I've done with fdformat is > > to > > make it just ignore the errors in userland instead. Try this: > > > >

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Michel Talon
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:13:39PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:04:33 am Michel Talon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk > > controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps > > with bad b

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:04:33 am Michel Talon wrote: > Hello, > > when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk > controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps > with bad blocks) i get: > Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured

floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-17 Thread Michel Talon
Hello, when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps with bad blocks) i get: Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured instead of the normal E letter. I then checked the same problem is present