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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!dct.zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: fdprobe() does not see fdc0 Message-ID: <veit.717858390@du9ds3> Date: 30 Sep 92 13:06:30 GMT References: <1992Sep30.110620.1238@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <1992Sep30.110620.1238@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >Some time ago I posted that fd0 was not seen anymore and I blamed it >on some problem I might have had with various patches not properly installed. >Now I found out that fd0 is only recognized by the autoconfig code when >the floppy drive contains a floppy and the door is closed. I admit, I did >not check it with door closed and no floppy inserted , should I ? :) >Anyway, now I always put a non-bootable floppy into the drive when booting. >Strange, though, isn't it? >-- >--Chris >Christoph P. U. Kukulies >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. Did you apply the "720k" fd0 patch that was posted several time ago? This patch *mis*uses minor numbers for density information, instead of partitioning information, and is thus incompatible with nearly everything around that uses the fd device. It is likely that the idea of the upper kernel about the fd device does no longer correspond with the fd driver's opinion. But you may of course have still problems with your sequence of patches. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"