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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Floppy driver not working under freebsd 1.1.5.1
Date: 28 Jul 1994 12:53:18 +0200
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njw@cs.city.ac.uk (Nick Williams) writes:
>when booting, I get the fdc driver printing it's banner:
> Jul 27 08:47:27 dogbolter /386bsd: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
>on isa but then the probe just sits there for a while and then gives
>up, just leaving me with the null message:
> Jul 27 08:47:27 dogbolter /386bsd: fdc0:
Hmm, you're the first person reporting a problem like this.
The floppy driver now really *probes* for the drives in addition to
looking up the CMOS for the drive type. It performs a short seek test
(10 cylinders in, and then recalibrate), and considers the drive probe
OK only if the drive successfully moved the heads.
Please, try finding out why this fails for you. Do the drives really
seek after the fdc0: announcement? (You should be able to hear this,
and at least with a floppy inserted, the drive LEDs should light up
for a second.) -- Sorry, i cannot tell'ya what's up with your drives
since all that stuff actually works for me and many other people.
I need your help here...
--
cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
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