From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 14:51:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA12059 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA12053 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11687 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:50:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA16736; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:25:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970912232505.WA27195@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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? References: <199709121843.LAA02974@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from K.J.Koster on Sep 12, 1997 20:04:41 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)