Daniela said:
Recently, my floppy drive isn't working properly. The kernel often panics on
unmount of a UFS floppy, and sometimes also while reading or writing an
ordinary DOS-formatted floppy. Very often, the data is corrupted, but when
formatting the floppy, it shows no errors. And once I tried to write a file
(which is just a little bit over 1440k in size) to a 1720k formatted floppy
(worked properly in the past), and the result was a complete system lockup.
I had to do a hard reset to bring it back. This is reproducable.
I'm running 4.10-STABLE. How can I tell whether this is a software bug or
flaky hardware?
Try the following, in this order:
- Reseat the floppy drive cable
- Replace the floppy drive cable
- Replace the floppy drive
- Try a couple of newer/older FreeBSD versions (just the live CD should work
fine) or even a different OS such as Knoppix or (heaven forbid) DOS.
If you still have problems after all this, the most likely explanation is that
some portion of your motherboard went bad.
--
Charles Ulrich
System Administrator
Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
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