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From: jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Subject: Problem booting floppies attached to 1542B
Message-ID: <1993Apr5.200543.28101@cs.wisc.edu>
Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 20:05:43 GMT
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Does anyone else out there trouble booting from floppies attached to a
1542B?  I seem to get a successful boot about one in 6 or 7 attempts.
But when it does successfully boot, there are no other problems.  When
the boot fails, it seems to successfully read some random number of
tracks, and then suddenly the drive stops seeking and just sits where
spinning forever.  The random number of tracks could be only a few, or
it could be enough tracks to almost finish the boot sequence.

I've never had a problem booting from the hard drive, so I'm wondering
if its a controller-related problem.  It's a fairly non-bothersome
problem, since I don't boot from floppies often.  That's why I've put
off posting about if for some time...  ;-)

I've seen this problem with the original bootables, and the
patchkit-0.2 bootables.  I haven't tried Julians boot-blocks yet, but
I'll post a followup when I do.

Anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks for the info,

Jon
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