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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:59:32 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies?
Message-ID:  <19970913165932.56962@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709130501.HAA05383@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 07:01:42AM %2B0200
References:  <199709130114.DAA01842@pat.idi.ntnu.no> <199709130501.HAA05383@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 07:01:42AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>> The V's were in the "Reading intelligently..." phase.
>>
>> I have similar experiences when iozone is running in the background.
>> MB is ASUS P65UP5. AHA2940 and AHA2940UW scsi controllers.
>
> Speaking of floppy problems and ASUS boards, I have had a board (for a
> PPro200) replaced from ASUS because it had a bad floppy controller. The
> problem appeared also in DOS or from the BIOS, and even when switching
> cables, floppy drive, or disks, so I really think it was the hardware.

Yes, I've also seen a remarkable number of boards where the floppy
driver was defective.  I don't understand it.  You'd think that the
electronics were simple enough to be made reliably.

Greg




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