On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 20:59:03 -0400 (EDT) 
 codewarrior@daemon.org (Andrew Brown) wrote:

 > in -current, yes?  ah...so this (timing bug) might explain why i had
 > no problems at all reading/writing floppies on my 486/50, but on any
 > pentium (or better) class machine, they would all get "billions" of
 > errors?

That is correct.  I noticed slews of errors on my P6, and tracked it
down to an unbounded delay loop (a for(...) with no call to "delay(1)"
inside.)

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