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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hang when booting from the orig boot floppy
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:04:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <399D3CCD.500AF189@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008172254.SAA26223@cse.psu.edu>

presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> I wonder it that means Plan 9 and Linux use different precompensation
> values for the floppy.  I'll have to look into Linux since we just got
> ours out of a floppy controller description.

There is certainly *some*thing flaky about the floppy support,
at least in the installation process.  Russ & I exchanged email
for many days as I tried to get the installation to work on a
couple of different systems.  (Finally worked on one of them.)


  reply	other threads:[~2000-08-18 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-17 22:54 presotto
2000-08-18 14:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-17  1:41 Russ Cox
2000-08-17  4:52 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-17 22:36 ` Jason Gurtz
2000-08-23 15:05 ` Michael Joosten
2000-08-23 17:00   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-14  8:50 Jason Gurtz

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