Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:33:07 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <3419D133.695678E2@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911204009.509D-100000@acp.qiv.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911232440.554C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> <19970912231003.EE31735@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: YO, People! the original problems were with people not being able to get the boot floppy to boot.. This is TOTALLY INDEPENDENT of the kernel that's the BIOS doing that read, under the direction of the boot block. please make sure that we don't get kernel floppy problems mixed up with BIOS problems.. Not that there ar no problems with the kernel driver, bat any probelm reported along the lines of: "I tried to boot the boot floppy but got: READ ERROR D=0 H=0 C=0 S=1" should not be included in the list of FreeBSD problems.. julian > > As 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. > > People don't ``seem to think'', but they ``notice'' it's just you. > Anyway, i offered you sending me the drive & controller, or whatever > is required to reproduce the problem. I have yet to hear anything > from you since. It's hard for me to debug problems i can't reproduce > myself. > > NB: i don't deny the potential bug that is there. It's just i can't > see it myself. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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