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List:       netbsd-port-sparc
Subject:    re: Floppy errors
From:       Curt Sampson <cjs () cynic ! net>
Date:       2000-05-30 4:08:20
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On Mon, 1 May 2000, matthew green wrote:

>    This error has been reported before; it is almost certainly caused
>    by an error in the driver, but I've no idea exactly which of the
>    errors it is..
> ...
> i'm not so sure it is the driver.  i've had this problem occur to me 90%
> of the time when the floppy itself was bad.

No, there are (or at least were, last summer) definite problems
with the NetBSD floppy driver on sparcs. I tried out two different
drives in a machine at one point where Solaris 2.6 had no problem
with them whatsoever, but NetBSD produced errors when trying to
read.

cjs
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