Broken rescue disks and perpendicular mode
Sorry if this is fixed already, but...
I am installing with bo boot disks on Pentium machines with floppy
controllers on ISA cards. Some things work, OK, the rescue disk loads OK.
But it fails when formatting the boot floppy , (and on other tasks, mdir
for example). The error is that the FDC does not support perpendicular
mode. One controller is pretty (386) , the other not so old.
Apparantly setfdprm can be used to get around this. Haven't been
able to try yet
Does this problem persist in the hamm rescue disk ? I imagine
there are enough people installing on 386 and 486, that this problem
should be quite common. (unless its the interaction with pentium main
boards thats causing the problem)
I am having problems, because I destroyed the onboard FDC on the
both the main boards I have to work with. I'll have to find another
machine to write a hamm rescue disk !
G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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