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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some (more) questions ... Date: 4 May 1996 20:44:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4mgfit$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <nC8236527@longacre.demon.co.uk> <4mcjl0$l0d@gaia.ns.utk.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E barry@utk.edu (RUSSELL BARRY) wrote: > Michael Searle (searle@longacre.demon.co.uk) wrote: > : I have been getting '/kernel: fdc0: input ready timeout' messages - what do > : they mean, can they be ignored? I am using an DOS format floppy, which is They mean the floppy controller didn't respond to some command within reasonable time (neither with a failure nor with a good status). > I had this error when I added my Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller and forgot to > disable its onboard floppy controller. Disabling the floppy controller fixed > it for me. Another wild guess: the floppy _tape_ driver was known to sometimes cause these problems. Do you have a floppy tape on it? > And yeah, the floppy driver is rather slow. Not really. It's faster than on many other Unices, perhaps with the only exceptions of Minix and Linux. However, the msdosfs code is *really* slow. For some occasional DOS floppy IO, mtools are way better. (The FreeBSD floppy driver shines on sequential IO like handling tar floppies. It gets 30 KB/s there, which is 2/3 of the theoretical throughput.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)