i386/50990: Intel deskboards canno handle correctly floppy drives

evs at esfm.ipn.mx evs at esfm.ipn.mx
Tue Apr 15 07:50:18 PDT 2003


>Number:         50990
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Intel deskboards canno handle correctly floppy drives
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 15 07:50:16 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eduardo Viruena Silva
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 i386
>Organization:
ESFM-IPN
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD Gina.esfm.ipn.mx 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #3: Sat Mar 29 21:27:31 CST 2003 root at Isabeau.esfm.ipn.mx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/eviruena i386


	
>Description:

	I have two Intel deskboards:  
		D850GB/Pentium 4 1.7MHz, 512 Mb RAM
		D815EEA/Pentium III, 900 MHz, 256 Mb RAM
	and two floppy drives of the same brand and model:
		SONY MPF920-Z
	
	I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and updated it to patch 7 in both computers.
	I do not have access to floppy drives.  The problem is not restricted to
	handle filesystems, [both msdosfs, ufs fail to mount], disc images
	cannot be written to floppies .

	I also tried to make a etherboot boot disc.  
	I cannot even make FreeBSD boot floppies. My FreeBSD-5.0 is working
	perfectly and I could make boot floppies from FreeBSD-4.8

	Deskboards/Floppy drives work under FreeBSD 4.8 [I deinstalled FreeBSD-5.0
	from one of them, installed FreeBSD 4.8  and the floppy drive worked again] 
			
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD-5.0 on a computer with a Intel deskboard, I do not know if the 
floppy type is relevant.  

test a)	Take a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE CD and mount it in your system:
			mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
	Insert a new floppy in you floppy drive.
	Try to write kern.flp image to your floppy:
	[according to the /floppies/readme.txt file in the FreeBSD 5.0 CD]
			dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/rfd0
	I do not have this device-file.  I tried:
			dd if=/cdrom of=/dev/fd0

test b) Let suppose you have a kern.flp floppy.  Try to mount it:
			mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
			
test c)	Try to mount an ms-dos floppy
			mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

test d)	Install mtools from the ports [/usr/ports/emulators/mtools].
	Try to read a ms-dos floppy

			mdir a:

I also run all of these tests on FreeBSD 4.8, they all worked perfectly.

>Fix:
	
	Unknown.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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