From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 10:24:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01192 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cube.i-pi.com (cube.i-pi.com [198.49.217.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01184 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ingham@localhost) by cube.i-pi.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA10079; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:24:45 -0600 Message-Id: <199609151724.LAA10079@cube.i-pi.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Kenneth Ingham Date: Sun, 15 Sep 96 11:24:42 -0600 To: Subject: Re: Workaround cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, JBarnes@CCO.caltech.edu References: <48994.barnes@biodec.wustl.edu> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My wife has a Dell at work that I just installed FreeBSD on. The Dell's Plug & Pray seems to somehow confuse FreeBSD. I got the same error that you reported where the floppy appeared dead. I didn't have a lot of time to spend tracking down the problem, so I took her disk out, brought it home, and installed FreeBSD on it from a machine here. I realize that this doesn't help solve the problem for people without multiple machines. Kenneth Ingham