Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> To: Jim Bryant <jbryant@news.iadfw.net> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HELP! QIC-80 tape drive not probed by kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950507163141.3547E@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505061206.HAA03032@news.iadfw.net>
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I had this problem a while back on a Gateway 2000. Steve Gerakines sent me the following solution: On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Steve Gerakines wrote: > I think I've pinpointed the problem. Take a look at the ft.c driver around > line 1481. There should be a DELAY(100) in there. Bump up the delay to > 200 and change the retries count in the loop to 20000 and recompile. This > should hopefully take care of your problem. Marc. On Sat, 6 May 1995, Jim Bryant wrote: > In reply: > > Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:46:14 +0200 > > From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) > > To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, steve2@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: Re: HELP! QIC-80 tape drive not probed by kernel > > > > Since this came up over and over again in Usenet (and i don't have an > > apparent solution since i don't have a floppy tape), here a forward: > > > > In article <3o74s1$hoa@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> you write: > > >In article <1995May2.112336.3104@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>, > > >Serge S. Maleyev <serg@klara.weizmann.ac.il> wrote: > > >>Rafael Araujo (Rafael_Araujo@p128.f151.n5020.z2.fidonet.org) wrote: > > > > > >>: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr > > >> ^ > > >> | > > >> flags 0x1 > > >> Just add this. > > > > > >He did: > > > > > >>: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 0x1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr > > > > > >I'm having this same problem. The flags argument to the controller doesn't > > >work in all cases apparently. And to the number of people who emailed me, > > >*YES* I did config, compile, and boot the new kernel, I'm not a moron. > > > > > >There's something up here, and nobody seems to know what it is. > > > > > >*Sigh* > > > > > >Someday I'll be able to back up my system. > > > > > >Shawn > > > > > >-- > > >Shawn Brown | shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu | California State University, Chico > > ><a href="http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~shawnb">Shawn's Chaosphere is here</a> > > > > > > -- > > cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de > > http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > > > > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > i had this problem on one system before, pentium/pci[ncr pci, ncr scsi]... > > pissed me off.. had to do a floppy install of 950210.. > > so far as i can tell, only one of four machines [2 pentium/pci's, > 486 isa/vesa, and a 486 isa] that i have installed freebsd on have had this > problem. > > Jim > -- > All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, > think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or > radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" > jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America > -- You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. - Edward Flaherty
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