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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:7900 comp.os.minix:20884 comp.os.linux:15929 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!immhp1.marina.unit.no!hallvard From: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) Subject: Re: Floppy overrun/underrun messages...what does it mean? Message-ID: <1992Nov13.064500.27670@ugle.unit.no> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Reply-To: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) Organization: Division of Marine Engineering References: <1992Nov12.004814.22770@news.nd.edu> <To25TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06:45:00 GMT Lines: 13 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