joe@grce.UUCP (Joseph Nordman) (11/01/90)
Anyone seen this before?
Running Merge386 under Unix, I get a device time-out when trying
to access the floppy from the DOS environment. The error message is
the standard DOS message:
Not ready error writing drive A
Abort, Retry, Ignore?
This can happen on file copies, or on directory listings. Typing 'r'
to force a retry always resolves the error, but I may get a number of
these time-outs if the transfer is large.
Using the floppy under Unix or MS-DOS works fine, so the hardware
seems OK.
I am running Merge386 v1.3 under Intel UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2
(Bell Technologies). My hardware is a 25MHz 486 prototype motherboard
based on the Opti 486/AT chip set. My Floppy adapter is an Everex
2F,2H standard AT board. I have tried changing AT bus parameters,
including increasing and decreasing the bus speed (6.3MHz and 12.5MHz),
but the symptoms remain the same.
Any ideas?
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