> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 05:42:33PM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
> > 1) Floppy support was a little touchy. Some NetBSD disks were difficult 
> > to read.
> 
> We have always had problems reading NetBSD and MS-DOS floppies on real
> i386 hardware as well.  Sometimes it takes _many_ floppy drives to
> get NetBSD installed on  anew system because the FS floppy just can't
> be read (yeah, tried writing it on several machines).  I can't believe
> the pc floppy drives are _that_ bad - is there some room for improvement
> in the floppy driver, perhaps?
> 

I've heard Jesus Monroy has written a floppy driver that works with
386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Minix, NT, and ZX-81 BASIC.
Maybe someone should look around for it and try that :-)


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Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."