Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

[Thomas Laus]

> For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a
> floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok,
> but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is
> gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet.
> 
My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't even fdformat the floppy.  The 
format utility runs and marks all tracks bad.  If I abort the process, the 
computer panics.  I always fdformat a floppy before running DD because I find 
that DOS fomatting of the disk does not catch all of the surface errors.

The floppy disks that were marked bad by FreeBSD 9 were successfully 
formatted by my laptop that runs OpenBSD 5.  I was able to successfully DD 
the image from CDROM to the 'bad' floppy disk from the laptop.  

Tom
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