Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:56:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <19970913165635.17336@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19970913081334.AH49772@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 08:13:34AM %2B0200 References: <19970912101014.37786@lemis.com> <19970912154815.HN39525@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970913084213.18186@lemis.com> <19970913081334.AH49772@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 08:13:34AM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > As Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I know that this is a pain. Nobody says it isn't. But it doesn't >> help to turn a blind eye to possible driver problems and blame them on >> the medium. > > An FDC-reported ``CRC error in data field'' is just what the FDC is > telling me. I don't see why you're blaming the driver for being > blind-eyed if it just believes what the FDC is telling. It looks like it, doesn't it? But how does that explain why people can read some things on one machine when it's running Linux, and not on the same machine when it's running FreeBSD? Remember that floppies contain a lot of analogue electronics (well, a large proportion of the electronics are analogue :-). And we all know that floppy drives are a piece of shit. I think that any driver that believes the drive is being blind-eyed. JOOI, how many times do you retry? Greg
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