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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:09:11 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
Cc:        "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies?
Message-ID:  <19970912160911.30658@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911232440.554C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:25:55PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911204009.509D-100000@acp.qiv.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911232440.554C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>

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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
>
>
> I started my machine up fine with the freebsd boot disk to change a few
> things it loaded as normal --- but my floppy has never worked from within
> freebsd, I've reported it a few times but people seem to think it is just
> me.

It would help if you could answer:

>>> 1.  Floppy formatted under <insert your OS here> on the same
>>>     machine.

Correct?  Which OS?

>>> 2.  FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically
>>>     things like checksum errors).

What errors did you get?

>>> 3.  <insert your OS here> can read the entire floppy with no trouble.

How did you read the entire floppy?

Greg



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