Subject: Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 14:57 PDT

Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O?

I've seen the floppy driver fail in several cases. I have a Pentium 120
laptop here in which the floppy works when cold, not when warm. Windows
95 runs that floppy just fine.

The fix is probably to "tune" the floppy timing parameters automaticaly
in the driver when there is an I/O failure. Not that I have time to
implement that.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: Amos Shapira <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:15:49 +0300

In message <[email-masked]> you write:
|Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O?

No.  It seems to work without a problem at all times.  There
are no messages from the floppy drive even when the installation
fails - the base diskettes allways finish being read and fail only
when they are gzip'ed.

Thanks,

--Amos

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