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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie: Install-Problems on i386
Date: 27 Jan 1997 18:16:11 GMT
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tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) wrote:

> > fdcresult: timeout
> > fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 2124 of 2120-2125
> > ....
> 
> As long as you only get soft errors you can ignore them.

Depends on the definition of `soft error' on a NE765-style dumb FDC.
The FDC itself has no notion of a soft error, except perhaps if you
count a CRC error in a data field as such -- but that's already losing
information, since there's no ECC, only CRC available.

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J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j