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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!UB.com!pippen.ub.com!sceng.ub.com!dwarner From: dwarner@sceng.ub.com (Dave Warner) Subject: Re: Problem booting floppies attached to 1542B Message-ID: <dwarner.12.0@sceng.ub.com> Lines: 52 Sender: news@pippen.ub.com (The Daily News) Nntp-Posting-Host: 128.203.2.156 Organization: Ungermann-Bass SSE References: <1993Apr5.200543.28101@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 23:32:47 GMT In article <1993Apr5.200543.28101@cs.wisc.edu> jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes: >From: jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) >Subject: Problem booting floppies attached to 1542B >Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 20:05:43 GMT > >Does anyone else out there trouble booting from floppies attached to a >1542B? I seem to get a successful boot about one in 6 or 7 attempts. >But when it does successfully boot, there are no other problems. When >the boot fails, it seems to successfully read some random number of >tracks, and then suddenly the drive stops seeking and just sits where >spinning forever. The random number of tracks could be only a few, or >it could be enough tracks to almost finish the boot sequence. > >I've never had a problem booting from the hard drive, so I'm wondering >if its a controller-related problem. It's a fairly non-bothersome >problem, since I don't boot from floppies often. That's why I've put >off posting about if for some time... ;-) > >I've seen this problem with the original bootables, and the >patchkit-0.2 bootables. I haven't tried Julians boot-blocks yet, but >I'll post a followup when I do. > >Anyone else seen this problem? > >Thanks for the info, > >Jon >-- >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. >Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu >Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates >and fast turnaround. Call today! I wound up finding two sets of terminators on my cdc hard drive. The two visible DIPs and three invisible sips. Removed the DIPs and the bus quit hanging. dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Warner DoD 870 Opinions mine alone, unless dwarner@sceng.ub.com otherwise stated. dwarner@milo.ub.com _Signature on file_ '93 FXSTS '71 T120 (Stolen) "Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it". - A. Bierce -------------------------------------------------------------------------