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Date:      Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:02:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MCA support 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912091659510.10542-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199912092159.NAA01426@mass.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive.  I'm fairly sure this
> > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like
> > the 2.88M drive.  I used the 1.2M drive and it works great.  I suspect a
> > normal 1.44M drive would be good too.
> 
> The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8)

Well, there you have it.

My second guess would be an issue with the 2.88M drive reading a 1.44M
floppy that was created in a 1.44M drive.  I was going to try burning a
1.44M floppy in the 2.88M drive to see if it allowed the disk to boot
without errors but I got local disk and network working before I got
around to it.

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