On Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:14:51 +1000 
 matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:

 >    I tried to boot the previous version of these floppies on my SS4. It worked 
 >    just fine up until it should eject the floppy and mount the root. However,
 >    it did read the kernel just fine :-)
 > 
 > right;  upto that point, the kernel hadn't touched the floppy driver  :)

Yah ... it's a good bet the kernel _recognized_ the floppy controller and 
possibly the drive ... but the chip used on the sun4m is a bit different, 
and the registers that do things like control the eject mechanism are in 
a totally different place...

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