I haven't been able to label any disks lately, and have
to resolv to duplicating old disklabeld disks.

I'm using:
	disklabel -w -B fd0 floppy3
which just results in:

Mar 22 05:03:42 wipux2 /netbsd: fd0d: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1)
Mar 22 05:04:30 wipux2 /netbsd: fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1)

What am I missing ? (no the disks are not writeprotected)
Does it work for anyone?
I'm also not able to 'view' the disklabel on my existing
floppies allthough I can 'mount /dev/fd0a' without errors.


following are snipped versions of dmesg and kernel-config:

NetBSD 1.1A (WIPOOL) #0: Sat Mar 16 01:46:23 MET 1996
    andrew@wipux2:/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WIPOOL
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
...
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
...
biomask 240 netmask 640 ttymask 65a
fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 0 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1)
fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 1 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 2)



#	$NetBSD: WIPOOL,v 1.7 1994/12/11 16:20:52 mycroft Exp $
#	WIPOOL -- everything that's currently supported
#

machine		i386		# architecture, used by config; REQUIRED

options		I586_CPU	# CPU classes; at least one is REQUIRED

#options	DUMMY_NOPS	# speed hack
options		XSERVER,UCONSOLE
options		INSECURE
options		MACHINE_NONCONTIG

options		DDB		# in-kernel debugger
options		DIAGNOSTIC	# internal consistency checks
options		KTRACE		# system call tracing, a la ktrace(1)

options		FFS		# UFS
options		QUOTA		# UFS quotas
#options	LFS		# log-structured file system
options		MFS		# memory file system

options		CD9660		# ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge file system
options		MSDOSFS		# MS-DOS file system

config		netbsd	root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1
options		NMBCLUSTERS=1024	# against mb_map full.

mainbus0 at root
isa0	at mainbus0
eisa0	at mainbus0
pci0	at mainbus0 bus ?

...
fdc0	at isa? port 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2	# standard PC floppy controllers
# fd*	at fdc? drive ?
fd0	at fdc? drive ?
ed0	at isa? port 0x300 iomem 0xdc000 irq 10	# WD/SMC, 3C503, and NE[12]000
...
pseudo-device	vnd	4		# paging to files
pseudo-device	ccd	4		# concatenated disk devices
-- 
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