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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 23:16:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PicoBSD boot error: can't load kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905032314250.70808-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905032101.PAA52290@harmony.village.org>

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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> : Okay, this encouraging.  I guess I've just had a string of bad floppies;
> 
> I have about 50 or 60 of the goofy things laying around.  For important data,
> I make two copies.  For disks that have even one error, I round file them and
> try again with another disk.  I had about 150 when I started this policy...
> At this rate I may need to buy disks for the first time in years :-)

OTOH, I suspect we still have some problem with our fd driver.. The same
floppies work for me under windows, and the argument "well, it's windows -
you never know" is moot, because the _data_ on them is still readable and
in good shape...

Andrzej Bialecki

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