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From: msmith@revolution.3-cities.com (Mark D. Smith) Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc References: <329abf4c.222061@news.eunet.ch> <57g2ft$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> <57l375$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] NNTP-Posting-Host: revolution.3-cities.com Message-ID: <329fcee4.0@galaxy.3-cities.com> Date: 30 Nov 96 06:06:28 GMT Lines: 13 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!galaxy.3-cities.com!revolution.3-cities.com!msmith J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Ooops. I've just noticed that i've been confusing their board names. : The P55T2P4 is what i'm using, and i think mine has got a Winbond : chip. I haven't noticed any weirdness with it yet, but neither do i : run a floppy tape on it. J. I'm back. I have the Winbond controller chip and I did an experiement. I mounted a dos floppy /dev/fd0a and copied a bunch of stuff from it. I got the following. Nov 29 00:58:24 mark /kernel: fdc0: input ready timeout Nov 29 00:58:51 mark last message repeated 3 times so, looks like the winbond chip may be flaky too. Mark