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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:7853 comp.os.minix:20877 comp.os.linux:15777 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!isc-br!tau-ceti!dogear!bobk From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Floppy overrun/underrun messages...what does it mean? Message-ID: <To25TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> Date: 12 Nov 92 18:10:52 GMT References: <1992Nov12.004814.22770@news.nd.edu> Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA Lines: 23 bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling) writes: > > I recently switched from an ESDI setup to a SCSI setup. On reinstalling > linux from SLS ver 0.98pl1 i got numerous floppy overrun/underrun errors... > retrying, etc. This happened both when I was mkefs -c -ing the drive, and > on the install from floppies. I don't remember this happening when I install > on the ESDI drive. My new controller is a Ultrastore 14F. But everything > seems to work in the end. I have X and all up and running, so I guess the > retries worked, but anyone know why I might have gotten these errors or wheth > its serious or not? > I see it all the time. All it means is that your floppy or your scsi is fast or slow compared to the other. The error message should be more like "I'm a floppy drive and your harddisk is so slow I'M waiting for it." or "As harddisks go, I'm sooooo fast I do waitstates on copy from floppy." Doesn't mean anything. (-: --- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us> Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA