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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:26:51PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> >=20
> > All hardware related to floppy on most UltraSPARCs and on Ultra1 in
> > particular is buggy. Don't even try to use it :-p.
>=20
> tried, can't even use it at all since it's looking in dev/sun for fd.c wh=
ich
> doesn't exist there. ;)
>=20
> seriously though, what is buggy about it, and what needs to be done to ma=
ke it
> not buggy?  i've got one here, i'm willing to do what work needs to be do=
ne to
> make it function correctly, as that is something that would be incredibly
> useful to me.  i *really* need to make NetBSD/i386 boot floppies and the =
floppy

You can't. The *hardware* is buggy.

> drive on my g/f's laptop just took a crap leaving me with two floppies th=
at i
> cannot use (not supported under sparc64 or macppc, whee!!)

Use netboot :-p.

>=20
> -brian
> --=20
> "Performing a Google search on the fairly unique name you've chosen weeks
> ago for a piece of software you're writing, only to discover that the
> sole occurance of that name is as a pen-name for someone who spends his
> spare time writing X-rated PowerPuff Girls fan fiction is pretty-much a
> buzzkill."				-- Jonathan Patschke --

--=20
Richard Braun

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