Back to PR alpha/30486: broken floppy on DS10

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:31:48PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote..
> Ok,
> 
> So now that I have a DS10, I tried to reproduce the floppy problem.
> I can't:
> 
> ds10% sudo fdformat /dev/fd0
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
> Errors encountered:
> Cyl Head Sect   Error
>  35    1   13   CRC error in data field
>  36    1   13   CRC error in data field
> 
> Other than a suspicious floppy or a dusty drive, things look ok.
> 
> See for details:
> 	http://www.xcllnt.net/~marcel/machines/ds10/

Well, on my DS10 I still see the failure.  Running a 'current' of May 25.

Obvious difference: mine is a 600MHz, your's a 466MHz.

Details: 
	http://www.freebsd.org/~wilko/ds10-pciconf.txt
	http://www.freebsd.org/~wilko/ds10-dmesg-boot.txt

I tried swapping the floppy drive and floppy cable.  No difference.

> BTW: is there a simple way to reset the SRM to a (near) virgin state?

ENOCLUE

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org