System specifics: 1.4.2/i386, 1.44M drive, post-1991 82077 fdc.

For about the first time "in years" (since at least 1.3), I have need
to write on 720k floppies... and I've discovered the kernel complains
with the following when writing to /dev/fd0f:

fd0f: soft error (corrected) writing fsbn 0 of 0-3
fdcresult: timeout
fd0: timeout (st0 0 cyl 0)
fd0f: hard error writing fsbn 168 of 168-171 (st0 8b<invld,drive_rdy> st1 10<data_overrun> st2 0 cyl 9 head 1 sec 1)
fdcresult: timeout
fd0: timeout (st0 4<top_head> cyl 0)
fd0f: hard error writing fsbn 228 of 228-231 (st0 44<abnrml,top_head> st1 10<data_overrun> st2 0 cyl 12 head 1 sec 7)
fd0f: hard error writing fsbn 268 of 268-271 (st0 a5<invld,seek_cmplt,top_head> st1 10<data_overrun> st2 0 cyl 14 head 1 sec 9)
[..etc..]

The same hardware booted into GNU/Linux and DRDOS has no problems at
all with 720k, and I've tried this on a fair sample of formatted
floppies.

Can someone please confirm if this is peculiar to my machine, or a
general 1.4.2 and send-pr-able matter... (If anyone still has 720k
disks around, that is. :)

-- 
Chris Baird,, <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>