Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Image Available
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Juergen Weiss <weiss@uni-mainz.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/14/1997 20:42:18
Curt Sampson writes:
 > All of that looks like it's due to firmware problems, although the floppy
 > disk read errors might also be due to a bad disk. I'm not sure what to
 > do about this; suggestions anyone?


The data overrun errors seem to occur on all 166 MHz multias.
They don't occur on 233 MHz models, even with the same firmware.
Die DMA is not able to service the floppy controller in time
(don't ask me why this should happen).  The `solution' is to
reread or rewrite the sector in error.

Juergen Weiss

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