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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:04:57 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] hang when booting from the orig boot floppy
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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.)