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From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Initialization in floppy.c (IBM/AT Minix 1.3d)
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Date: 16 Dec 88 02:59:11 GMT
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Within the last few weeks (or perhaps months) someone posted a message
which stated, essentially, that the floppy disk driver was not being
initialized properly, and that in making a decision as to whether it
had a 350K drive or a 1.2 meg drive it could hang depending on what sort
of garbage it  had been initialized with.  (I think that was the thrust of
the message).  Fixes were also posted.

I have just put 1.3d up (made from the D1.2-1.3 file on bugs.nosc.mil) and
find that if the floppy driver encounters a disk error, especially during
an initialization phase, it hangs the system.  I suspect that it is the
same problem as previously reported.  Unfortunately I did not keep the
message, since I did not have the problem at that time.  Would someone
e-mail me a copy?  (or perhaps a copy of floppy.c if they have already
inserted the fix).

Thanks

John Nall (BITNET jnall@rai.fsu.edu)
Computer Science Department
Florida State University

(p.s.  Spelling mistake on fourth line -- should read "360K drive").