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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