From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 14: 2: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65868157F0; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15098; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:02:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:02:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MCA support In-Reply-To: <199912092159.NAA01426@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this > > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like > > the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a > > normal 1.44M drive would be good too. > > The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8) Well, there you have it. My second guess would be an issue with the 2.88M drive reading a 1.44M floppy that was created in a 1.44M drive. I was going to try burning a 1.44M floppy in the 2.88M drive to see if it allowed the disk to boot without errors but I got local disk and network working before I got around to it. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message