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From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies?
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
> >
> >
> > I started my machine up fine with the freebsd boot disk to change a few
> > things it loaded as normal --- but my floppy has never worked from within
> > freebsd, I've reported it a few times but people seem to think it is just
> > me.
> 
> It would help if you could answer:
> 
> >>> 1.  Floppy formatted under <insert your OS here> on the same
> >>>     machine.
> 

linux, dos, 

 
> >>> 2.  FreeBSD runs into hardware problems with the floppy (typically
> >>>     things like checksum errors).

hard error reading fsbn xx  etc.
 ST0 44 ST1 20 ST2 20


> 
> What errors did you get?
> 
> >>> 3.  <insert your OS here> can read the entire floppy with no trouble.
> 

the bios, or dos, linux

> How did you read the entire floppy?
> 
> Greg
>