Floppy Drives on i386

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Is anyone else having problems with floppy drives on i386? I'm trying to
make boot floppy and I'm getting an insane number of errors. I've used up 
a fresh new box of sony disks, on 2.6 and -current machines. I've tried on
an number of different machines, including one purchased in the last
month, and all of them give me *exactly* the same error:

/bsd: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-3 (st0 40<abnrml> st1 1<no_am> 
st2 0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1)

Ideas?

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