Subject: Re: getting to the floppy on a Multia
To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/13/1997 08:43:23
As Steve Price wrote...
> I seem to remember reading somewhere in the Alpha WWW pages
> that the floppy on the Multia is currently unsupported.  Is
> this still true?  If so, does anybody any kind of specs on
> it so that if somebody wanted to right a driver they could?

Not as far as I can tell. I booted earlier 1.3-ALPHA bootfloppies
'sort of OK' on my 166Mc Multia. It was only plagued by data
overrun errors. I was told this was only happening on the 166 not
on the 233Mc machines.

Wilko
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