Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 6 Sep 1997 06:11:52 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work...
Message-ID:  <19970906061152.WB12935@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905133842.822A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Sep 5, 1997 13:40:00 -0700
References:  <19970905073108.SN45825@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905133842.822A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:

> OK, I will replace the Floppy Drive and then Get back to you -- however
> that doesn't make much sense to me since I used a floppy to boot the
> machine for installation --- so apparently the bios does not have a
> problem with this drive.

Maybe the BIOS retries it differently, more often, or whatever.  Or,
the floppy got scratched after the initial installation.

-- 
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. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970906061152.WB12935>