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From: alain@xon.co.uk
Subject: Re: conf/1756: timeout on fd0
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The following reply was made to PR conf/1756; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: alain@xon.co.uk
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: freebsd.org!freebsd-gnats-submit@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: conf/1756: timeout on fd0
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 13:41:42 BST

 Thank you very much for your quick reply.
 
 Alas, I'm not a techie, hardware speaking, and I did not know that my
 motherboard had the UMC8669F which is incompatible with the hardware
 it tries to clone. Also, I saw on the FreeBSD site that the Asustek
 motherboards are recommended and was recommended by several other
 friends.
 
 > Upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD.  The UMC8669F chip has several
 > imcompatibilities with the original hardware it tries to clone.  The
 > floppy controller flaw has been worked around in FreeBSD 2.1.5, or
 > 2.2-current on 1996/03/31.  The UART bug is (partially?) worked around
 > in FreeBSD 2.2-current since 1996/09/30.  (What is this bug?  Well,
 > try running UUCP over it...)
 
 I've applied for a subscription to FreeBSD and should receive
 FreeBSD-2.1.5 next week which according to you should have a patch for
 this problem.
 
 > In case you don't wanna upgrade, get back to me in mail, and i will
 > send you a patch for the floppy stuff.
 
 Yes, I am interested so that I can use my system until I upgrade to
 2.1.5.
 
 By the way, I am deeply amazed by the level of support you
 provide. Nothing like that would happen if I had gone for let's say
 SCO or SUN.
 
 I do hope to be able to contribute to the FreeBSD community by
 providing (on the software side only !!!!) new tools or extensions to tools.
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