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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2234 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:50:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!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: Re: Floppy Drive Problem Message-ID: <1993Feb25.202117.21261@oz.plymouth.edu> Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. References: <1993Feb24.061755.20038@oz.plymouth.edu> <1misg8INNakj@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 20:21:17 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1misg8INNakj@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: > >In article <1993Feb24.061755.20038@oz.plymouth.edu>, ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes: >>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 > >I guess you did the same a I did for over 6 months until someone told me >to take the medium out of the drive and leave the door open. > Nope, I have had nothing in the drive; I have switched "A" and "B" drives; I have had the drive door open. No difference, It only occurs when I boot 386bsd off of the hard disk. I have tried many combinations of different things to no avail. Thanks anyway. --> Ted | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Academic Computing or | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 |