From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 12:05:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA29798 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ukc.ac.uk (mercury.ukc.ac.uk [129.12.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA29755; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kestrel.ukc.ac.uk by mercury.ukc.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:04:44 +0100 Received: from localhost by kestrel.ukc.ac.uk (5.x/UKC-2.14) id AA04038; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:04:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:04:41 +0100 (BST) From: "K.J.Koster" To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? In-Reply-To: <199709121843.LAA02974@usr05.primenet.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Personally, I suspect timing issues with the floppy driver; I assume > you are using an unFIFO'ed NEC floppy controller. Floppy timing is > a critical factor in hysterisis effects and overall reliability. > I do have in fact a NEC floppy controller :) Umm. If timing is so critical, why do MS-DOS and Win311 work flawlessly with it? I mean, they are hardly real-time OS-es? Let me put it like this: if floppy timing _is_ so critical, the FreeBSD floppy driver must be buggy not to adhere to it. On the other hand, I've never ad any trouble when I switched to mtools. How's that? Groetjes, Kees Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------v-- Kees Jan Koster tel: UK-1227-453157 e-mail: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk 15 St. Michaels Road, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------ from trials come errors... from errors come legends...