Error message from dd

["Robert D. Hilliard" <hilliard@metrolink.net>]

     While making a set of 5-1/4" floppies to test installation of the
most recent disk set, I received the following message while writing
the sixth floppy in the series:

     floppy0: timeout handler died: do fd request

     Dd continued writing to the disk without interruption, and the
disk (base-3.bin) was read siccessfully in the installation.

     The command used to write the disk was:
   dd if=base-3.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync

     What caused that error message?  Was it dangerous to ignore it
as I did?

Bob


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