🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to Bruce, Phil, and Des I now understand the floppy problem.
Here is the scoop.

>  you should not use format unit (0x04) just to initialize the floppy
>drive. This will instead try to format the floppy diskette !
>Des.

I used the format because I believed (incorrectly) that the monitor
"raw" command was broken and I needed to get a floopy formatted.
It turns out that formatting takes too long and the Minix scsi driver
gives a watchdog timeout.  Once I took the format command out of
my initialization sequence I was back to the single 5/24 error
that I also get from my hard drives.  In other words I have a
working floppy drive.

The next step is to dig a hole through the ioctl mess in the kernel
in order to get other scsi commands to the drive.  I suspect that the
watchdog timeout problem will continue to be a problem too.
Is there a solution to the latter besides increasing the timeout
length.  (Formatting hard drives can take tens of minutes).

Sverre