mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (06/30/91)
I've been having some problems with the floppy drive on my system (386SX/20, 4MB memory, Everex EV-346 MFM HD/FD controller, SCO Unix r3.2v2.0). It seems that during periods of heavy system activity -- i.e., when the system is unbatching news, or compiling software -- if I try to use the floppy drive, I get messages like this: WARNING: error on dev floppy (2/52), block=924 cmd=00000003 status=00000002 I can trigger these messages simply by formatting a floppy disk; I get at least one such message during the verify process (but not during the actual format process). If I try to format the floppy later on, when the system is in a more quiescent state, it works fine. (The drive also works just fine under DOS, for what it's worth.) Is there a solution to this problem? Do I have a kernel parameter set too low, or something like that? Thanks in advance... -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" ...!hela!mudos!mju |