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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2074 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:10:46 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!news.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!oz.plymouth.edu!ted From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) Subject: Floppy Drive Problem Message-ID: <1993Feb24.061755.20038@oz.plymouth.edu> Reply-To: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H. Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 06:17:55 GMT Lines: 53 I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this problem before, as I just began working with 386BSD, but here is the information related to my problem. 386/486/387: DEC pc 386DX w/Math Co-Processor ISA/EISA/SCSI: ISA RAM size: 8Meg drive(s) type and size: 245M(IDE), 52M(IDE), 3.5" 1.44M Floppy 5.25" 1.2M Floppy tape(s) type and size: None ethernet type: Decpa 16-bit card (thin wire) graphics type: Super-VGA 512K VRAM The problem is with the "A" drive, a description follows: Basically, When I boot from the hard drive, I cannot access or use the floppy drive. The (A) drive remains spinning and on the entire time I run from the hard drive. However, if I boot from the "A" drive it does not behave in this manner. I was only able to load the "BIN01" distribution set by: 1. Boot from the "A" drive. 2. Install the base system. 3. Reboot onto the floppy again. 4. Mount the Hard drive on '/mnt' 5. CD to /mnt/usr/local/bin 6. do: mread a:*.* /mnt/tmp It almost seems as if, at boot time, when it was checking for the devices; that it forgot/unable to close/shut down the drive. Right now I have a usable system, but it is not easy to get information onto it. I am using the latest and greatest dist.fs and fixit.fs from the unofficial directory, unfortunately I had the same problem with the original 0.1 distribution. Has anyone seen this? If so, please tell me how fix it. -> Ted | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Academic Computing or | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 |