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Encourage readers who have "READ TIMEOUT@" errors on floppies to write

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the floppy images on the drive that will be reading them.
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briggs 2005-01-08 05:33:42 +00:00
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.\" $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 $
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.Ss2 Open Firmware boot syntax .Ss2 Open Firmware boot syntax
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.It .It
Use another boot method Use another boot method
.bullet) .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 .It
.To 2 "TFTP timeout" .To 2 "TFTP timeout"
.Dq Li "TFTP timeout" .Dq Li "TFTP timeout"