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- 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
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- 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
-