Andreas Rohde wrote:
> 2. and a strange floppy error message
> /dev/fd0a works fine !!!!!!!!!!!! 
> (one time a day -> no cron job etc ... )

Something ought be trying to access floppy. When these messages
appear, can you try running

	fstat | grep fd

to find out which particular process has the floppy device file open?
 
Jaromir

> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fdcresult: timeout
> fd0: timeout (st0 20<seek_cmplt> cyl 0)
> fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 19 (st0 20<seek_cmplt> st1 0 st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 2)
> fdcresult: timeout
> 
> any idea ?
> 
> regards
> andreas
> 
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