On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:41:43PM -0500, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Could be damaged.  Could be dirty.  But did you mean to suggest that you get
> the same error on all four boxen??  To me, that points at software...
> 
> What about other sorts of operations, tar and such?
> 

dd'ing to the diskette produces the same error. Three of my machines get the
exact same error and one IPX gets a slightly different one:
xiamin@ghostpriest ~ % sudo mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0c /mnt
Password:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 7 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
head 0
sec 1)
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 7 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
head 0
sec 1)
mount_msdos: /dev/fd0c on /mnt: Input/output error

Oddly enough fdformat works perfectly (well, without complaint). All of
these boxen were shipped in cheap foam peanuts (in different shipments
though) from the same guy so I'm afraid that some peanuts ended up in the
drive, but I can't see any from external visual inspection (pushing open the
door and squinting inside). Everything but fdformat fails with the same
error (eject diskette also works).
> 
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Simon Raahauge DeSantis wrote:
> > I've got four SPARCs (two IPX, two IPC) with non-working floppydrives. I'm
> > hoping it's just choked with dust or something. Here's a sample error
> > message from one of the IPCs trying to mount a DOS floppy (and I know the
> > floppy is formatted correctly):
> > xiamin@goethe ~ % sudo mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0c /mnt
> > Password:
> > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
> > head 0
> > sec 1)
> > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0
> > head 0
> > sec 1)
> > mount_msdos: mount: Input/output error
> > 
> > Does this mean my drive is dead or what? According to the previous owner the
> > drive was working fine a month ago, so maybe it got damaged in shipping.
> > -- 
> > -Simon Raahauge DeSantis
> 
> -- 
> Michael Jinks, IB
> Systems Administrator, Chicago Center for Computational Psychology
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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis