alpha/30486: AlphaServer DS10 floppy access is broken

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:00:02AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote..
> On May 25, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> >>But not good either:
> >>
> >>ds10#fdformat /dev/fd0
> >>Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> >>Processing EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE done.
> >
> >Hmmm, this sounds like another problem. The PIO problem mentioned
> >in the PR. I'll try formatting a disk later today.
> 
> alpha% sudo fdformat /dev/fd0
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
> 
> alpha% sudo dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/fd0 bs=9216
> 160+0 records in
> 160+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 64.281643 secs (22939 bytes/sec)
> 
> alpha% sudo dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/tmp/fd0 bs=9216
> 160+0 records in
> 160+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 64.890015 secs (22724 bytes/sec)
> 
> alpha% sudo newfs /dev/fd0
> /dev/fd0: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
>         using 3 cylinder groups of 0.50MB, 32 blks, 64 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  160, 1184, 2208
> 
> alpha% sudo fsck_ufs /dev/fd0
> ** /dev/fd0
> ** Last Mounted on
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
> 2 files, 2 used, 605 free (21 frags, 73 blocks, 3.5% fragmentation)
> 
> I can't reproduce the failure... :-(

What machine?  Your Miata?  This is on my DS10.  I think (but I did not
check...) that my 164sx works.  It probably does not have -current on
it (I use it as the install target when I build releases :)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org