The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/31453; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: breing@spardat.at
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-sparc/31453: formatting a floppy reliably crashes a SparcClassic under NetBSD 2.0.2
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:23:38 +0200

 On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:24:00AM +0000, breing@spardat.at wrote:
 > fdcresult: timeout
 
 Could you modify sys/arch/sparc/dev/fd.c, function fdcresult() (starting
 around line 1054) and either increment the loop count from 10000 to
 say 1000000 or change the delay(1) near the end of the loop to a delay(100)?
 
 Would be interesting to know if this avoids the timeout.
 
 Martin