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From: cwiener@crlabs.CRLABS.COM (Chris Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Micronics 25MHz problem
Summary: I've been down this road before
Keywords: floating point, Interactive, CMOS
Message-ID: <932@crlabs.CRLABS.COM>
Date: 20 Aug 89 12:54:46 GMT
References: <1908@ucsd.EDU> <6700018@adaptex>
Reply-To: cwiener@crlabs.CRLABS.COM (Chris Wiener)
Followup-To: comp.unix.i386
Organization: CR Labs, Fort Lee, NJ
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In article <6700018@adaptex> neese@adaptex.UUCP writes:
>
>>A friend has just upgraded the motherboard in his ISC 2.0.2 system to a
>>Micronics 25MHz board with an ESDI disk controller.  The system boots
>>fine, including the mounting of the filesystems on his 300+Meg drive.
>>But once he tries to log in and the startup script does a df(1), the
>
>This smacks of a floating point problem.  Yes 'df' does use floating
>point to do the percent conversions.  If you have a floating point
>coprocessor in the system, then take it out and try it again.  Just a
>thought.
>

A better idea would be to call up Interactive's Support People in California
(N.H. people are useless) and ask them for a copy of the "floating point fix
diskette".  This did the job for me after 4 months of playing games with the
N.H. support people, the California office solved the problem in 2 phone calls.
Nice work Alan Yoshida!

Now maybe Interactive could integrate this into their next release instead of
causing everyone to have to ask this question.  A mention in the 2.0.2 release
notes at least!
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						Chris
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Christopher Wiener N2CR                        CR Labs, Fort Lee, NJ
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