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From: boot@osf.org (Bruce Bauman)
Subject: questions about floppy support
Message-ID: <BOOT.93Mar17172729@donald.osf.org>
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Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 22:27:34 GMT
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I'm having some difficulties using floppies under 386BSD. I'm running
under 0.1 with the latest patchkit installed, on a 486DX2 66. I either
get hard errors from the floppy driver, or errors because the floppy
driver doesn't support certain ioctls. For example, I think newfs
tries to get the geometry of the floppy via an ioctl, and this fails
because the fd.c driver just returns ENXIO for ANY ioctl on the floppy
device.

I'm having a hard time believing no one uses floppy drives under
386BSD, but they sure don't work for me. Has anyone had better luck?

-- Bruce
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Bruce Bauman	email: boot@osf.org		phone: 617-621-7205
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142