Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:17:55 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709160317.WAA27618@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:35:16 %2B0200." <19970916013516.JM28299@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch writes: > > As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > > > Noticed Passive Release went from > > Enabled to Disabled. And mostly *my* problems have disappeared too. Was > > able to get one or two errors off the FDC. > > p.s.: Does your mainboard also have a Winbond chip for the FDC? Quite > possible that this is the actual culprit. I think my board has an SMC > chip. fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B ...the above is my Asus P6NP5 which has had FreeBSD floppy problems. Also have access to a Gateway P133 with a VX chipset and same FDC but have not had any problems with it. Nor with my $100 5x86/133 CPU & MB which "only" has a NEC 765. I haven't rebooted since setting my BIOS to its defaults. But the defaults seem to be doing the trick. Had "make world", "bonnie", "iozone auto", and the rc5v2 Bovine RC5 client running earlier and formatted about 10 floppies. Only one had problems and it always had its problem in the same place, therefore bad media. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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