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From: fredh@telerama.lm.com (fredh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.1.5.1]  fd0: recal failed
Date: 23 Jul 1994 04:01:26 -0400
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David BREMNER (bremner@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:

: First the good news: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 installed fine, and is currently
: busy rebuilding XFree86 (Yeah, I know. I really _do_  want to do this.)
: Thanks gang; the install process is great.

: But, when I use mount_pcfs (e.g. in load_dos), I got the following 
: slightly distressing console messages about every second floppy:

: /386bsd:fd0: recal failed ST0 70 <abnrml,seek_complt,equ_chck>


This is truley a new flaw in 1.1.5.1, the previous versions have never 
done this.  I too experience the same error when changing disks after 
using load_dos.