I suspect that there is a fundamental issue surrounding the floppy drive. I know that the drive is not faulty and performed as expected under my old SunOS.
As well as having difficulty at boot, I now find that I cannot seem to write a rescue floppy either! - I admit I haven't tried very hard yet, but it's not looking good. My eventual intended platform is actually a SPARC IPC which may be even worse - I'll let you know if it has the same,or different symptoms when I've finished playing with the IPX... Best wishes, Nigel ------ On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Daniel Alvarez wrote: > > after booting debian says that the fdd of my > LX is a "post-1993"-model. with this i never > had errors on PROM-Level but the recently > described "I/O-port already in use"-message > is output sometimes when i try to mount the > device (not reproduceable). maybe the IPX- > series whose owners reported the error with > the boot-disks has an older drive, as AFAIK > it was released earlier, which doesn't work > with the disks. it is possible that the whole > problem turns out to be an incompatibility > with an older fdd-model. then maybe a change > of the disk-image to accomplish the older > standart solves it, assuming that the "post > 1993"-drive is backwards compatible. > > IPX-users should check the model-# of the fdd > _________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
