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:
>Unformatted:
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