On 28.07.96, kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein) wrote

> Could you give more details on the panic message?

As Matthias wrote, the message text is "allocbuf: buffer larger than
MAXBSIZE requested".

> Something that might be worth doing is waiting for 1.2 to come out, since
> it won't need to disklabel hack in place, and the MSDOSFS is improved as
> well.

I guess that's what I'm gonna do. NetBSD 1.1 runs very stable on my Amiga,
so I can afford to wait a little and then install release 1.2 on the PC.

> As for the soft read errors, it might be possible you have floppies with
> errors on them (MSDOS doesn't report soft errors).  What makes you think
> it has to do with timing trouble, though?

The typical messages I get when I copy files from a floppy are:

   /netbsd: fdcresult: timeout
   fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 72
   fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 216
   [etc.]

That's why I was talking of "timing trouble".
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