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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!ajfcal!novatel!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) Subject: Re: 386BSD: Problem in wd.c (?) - affects swap, non-atatched drive(s) Message-ID: <1992Dec14.155504.5110@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> Sender: news@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (The UseNet USER) Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd. Calgary, Alberta, Canada" X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1992Dec11.175951.54@uc.msc.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:55:04 GMT Lines: 52 Joseph Thomas (jpt@uh.msc.edu) wrote: : Okay - here's a problems I haven't seen talked about and it's : not in the FAQ. Before I go chase it down and come up with some (possibly : unique to my system) fix, has anyone else run across this ??? Thanks. This really SHOULD be in the FAQ since it affects ANYONE using MFM/RLL drives and having installed the patches from the patchkit. [Diatribe of problem deleted.] : Anyone have any ideas??? Thought it was worth asking before I really : dig into this (not that I've had time before now - but things look good : for the next week or two). I went through the exact same thing a few weeks ago and came up with the same symptoms... When I posted the same sort of message to the net that you did, someone sent me a message telling me exactly what I'm telling you now. If you use the Norway wd driver, you won't have this problem, you will also have proper bad144 support and proper multi-drive support. You Can get the Norway wd driver from agate.berkeley.edu in (I think) the unsupported directories. It might be under "barsoom" (which is where it originated). Anyways, the file I got was called "drivepatch.tar" and contains: rwxr-xr-x 268/20 0 Jul 31 04:27 1992 ./ rw-r--r-- 268/20 3162 Jul 31 04:22 1992 fd.c.patch rw-r--r-- 268/20 396 Jul 31 04:22 1992 isa_device.h.patch rw-r--r-- 268/20 5098 Jul 31 04:21 1992 mkioconf.c.patch rw-r--r-- 268/20 3510 Jul 31 04:22 1992 wd.c.patch rw-r--r-- 268/20 991 Jul 31 04:23 1992 CONFIG.SAMPLE I sent Terry a message when I discovered this asking him to possibly remove the appropriate patches from his next release of the patchkit and replace them with these patches but I didn't receive a response which could indicate that he's either very busy (likely) or didn't receive my message. (or third possibility: thinks I'm a weenie and chose to ignore me. :-> ) Anyways, this is definitely one for the FAQ.. (Terry; are you listening?) -- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew | I was late to start, I | peyerlh@sun.cuug.ab.ca | there- | might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I | I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. | -- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew | I was late to start, I | peyerlh@sun.cuug.ab.ca | there- | might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Administrator"| fore I | I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |