From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 5 21:23:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19877 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:23:05 -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 VAA19868 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA01477; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 06:22:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id GAA27485; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 06:11:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970906061152.WB12935@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 06:11:52 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Subject: Re: FreeBSD floppy disk driver does not work... References: <19970905073108.SN45825@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 Jamil J. Weatherbee on Sep 5, 1997 13:40:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > OK, I will replace the Floppy Drive and then Get back to you -- however > that doesn't make much sense to me since I used a floppy to boot the > machine for installation --- so apparently the bios does not have a > problem with this drive. Maybe the BIOS retries it differently, more often, or whatever. Or, the floppy got scratched after the initial installation. -- 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. ;-)