Subject: re: Floppy errors
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/30/2000 00:08:20
On Mon, 1 May 2000, matthew green wrote:
> This error has been reported before; it is almost certainly caused
> by an error in the driver, but I've no idea exactly which of the
> errors it is..
> ...
> i'm not so sure it is the driver. i've had this problem occur to me 90%
> of the time when the floppy itself was bad.
No, there are (or at least were, last summer) definite problems
with the NetBSD floppy driver on sparcs. I tried out two different
drives in a machine at one point where Solaris 2.6 had no problem
with them whatsoever, but NetBSD produced errors when trying to
read.
cjs
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