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On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:57:16PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>   =20
>    On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:26:51PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>    > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
>    > >=20
>    > > All hardware related to floppy on most UltraSPARCs and on Ultra1 in
>    > > particular is buggy. Don't even try to use it :-p.
>    >=20
>    > tried, can't even use it at all since it's looking in dev/sun for fd=
.c which
>    > doesn't exist there. ;)
>    >=20
>    > seriously though, what is buggy about it, and what needs to be done =
to make it
>    > not buggy?  i've got one here, i'm willing to do what work needs to =
be done to
>    > make it function correctly, as that is something that would be incre=
dibly
>    > useful to me.  i *really* need to make NetBSD/i386 boot floppies and=
 the floppy
>   =20
>    You can't. The *hardware* is buggy.
>=20
> how so?  i've used it successfully from the prom or from solaris on
> both U1 and U10 machines.
>=20
> i've always planned to port our sparc fd.c to the two new fd types
> ("fd,two" and "fdthree"?? i forget now.) but haven't gotten around
> to it ....

Ah right, the bug concerns booting only :
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_26

Don't mind my messages.

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Richard Braun

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