RE: vanishing floppy on Tsunami machines

["Greg Lindahl" <glindahl hpti com>]

> A not very convenient workaround does exist.  If before booting
> one will access a floppy in SRM in any way then there are no problems
> with a floppy recognition in Linux; so booting from a floppy will do
> but you do not have to go to such extremes. :-)

Hey, that explains all my symptoms -- the floppy always worked when
installing (booting off floppy from SRM), but then on subsequent reboot it
disappears consistently on 10% of my nodes.

Jay, you should look into this patch...

-- g