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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: I'm going to SHOOT SOMEONE!
Date: 13 Jul 1994 14:24:01 -0400
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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Bill Paul (wpaul@panix.com) wrote:
: No, you're one of the many idiots who assumed that his system wasn't
: broken because MS-DOG didn't complain about the floppies being connected
: wrong. The fact that DOS blindly ignores serious hardware problems
: isn't a feature, people: it's a bug. :)
Yeah, tell me about it. This is exactly why I didn't suspect a problem.
DOS worked. In self-defense, this is not exactly something one would
suspect (immediately). The A: drive and B: drives acted normally,
despite the fact that they were backwards.
: C'mon, this was reported and fixed in 1.1.5.1 already! Catch up man,
: catch up! Don't you read the other articles in this group? Get the
: filesyst.flp image from the 1.1.5.1-RELEASE directory and use that.
: Should work like a charm.
Yes, I do read the other articles in this group. Problem is, I've only
been reading them for 3 days, and I saw nothing about this. I didn't
look into the 1.1.5.1 release because I had already downloaded the other
one, and didn't want to re-download what I figured was a minor upgrade.
I planned on just grabbing the sources and upgrading from 1.1.5 to
1.1.5.1 by recompiling what I needed to.
Thanks for the help, though.
Jeff
--
Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something stupid gets
peoples' attention