floppy disk controller broken

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:44:03 +0200
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> I will try ufdformat on a different machine now.

Ok, on a different machine[1], it works without problems:
root at kg-i82# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-i82.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Wed May 28 15:59:38 CEST 2008     root at kg-i82.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/I81K  i386
root at kg-i82# ./ufdformat da0
Geometry: 80 cyl 2 heads 18 secpercyl 512 bytespersec
current: 2880 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block formatted
0: 2880 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block 
1: 1232 blocks, 1024 bytes-per-block 
2: 2400 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block 
Format 1440K floppy `da0'? (y/n): y
Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.

Why it didn't work on the first machine[2] I don't know.

References:
1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/i81k
2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/sx270
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Regards, 
Torfinn Ingolfsen