Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:25:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <19970912232505.WA27195@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970912200119.3901B-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>; from K.J.Koster on Sep 12, 1997 20:04:41 %2B0100 References: <199709121843.LAA02974@usr05.primenet.com> <Pine.SV4.3.95.970912200119.3901B-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>
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As K.J.Koster wrote: > I do have in fact a NEC floppy controller :) Are you sure? I highly doubt it. Open the case of your machine, and verify. It's probably a SMC chip. Oh, you mean your FDC is being announced as a NE72065B? That doesn't say anything. This message is (sorry) just junk. > Umm. If timing is so critical, why do MS-DOS and Win311 work flawlessly > with it? Timing isn't so critical. Floppies are probably not Terry's strongest side either. > On the other hand, I've never ad any trouble when I switched to mtools. > How's that? Funny. It excludes the driver totally, since mtools *do* use the floppy driver as well. :-) -- 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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