From ed4b87656abcbec99f8d96d0af0ddf409f4772aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: briggs <briggs@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:33:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Encourage readers who have "READ TIMEOUT@" errors on floppies
 to write the floppy images on the drive that will be reading them.

---
 distrib/notes/macppc/install | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/distrib/notes/macppc/install b/distrib/notes/macppc/install
index 42146b7ce17b..764f76c5eea7 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/macppc/install
+++ b/distrib/notes/macppc/install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: install,v 1.34 2005/01/08 05:21:49 briggs Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: install,v 1.35 2005/01/08 05:33:42 briggs Exp $
 .
 .Ss2 Open Firmware boot syntax
 .
@@ -803,6 +803,11 @@ Clean the floppy drive
 .It
 Use another boot method
 .bullet)
+.Pp
+As disk drives get older, especially with portables, they can get a
+little bit out of alignment so that they do not consistently read disks
+written on other floppy drives.  Strongly consider writing the floppies
+on the same machine that will be reading them.
 .It
 .To 2 "TFTP timeout"
 .Dq Li "TFTP timeout"