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From: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
Subject: Re: Floppy overrun/underrun messages...what does it mean?
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Reply-To: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06:45:00 GMT
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In article <To25TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>, bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
|> I see it all the time. All it means is that your floppy or your scsi is
|> fast or slow compared to the other. The error message should be more
|> like "I'm a floppy drive and your harddisk is so slow I'M waiting for it."
|> or "As harddisks go, I'm sooooo fast I do waitstates on copy from floppy."
|> 
|> Doesn't mean anything. (-:

	Well, I used to see it a lot to. And in the end it was the only
thing I saw. (Except for HD-reset or something like that.) I've now
ordered a new controller.

	Hallvard Paulsen