Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:15:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MCA support Message-ID: <199912092215.OAA03733@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199912092159.NAA01426@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 9, 1999 01:59:40 pm"
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> > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this > > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like > > the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a > > normal 1.44M drive would be good too. > > The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8) I can confirm the loader problem on IBM MCA machines with 2.88M drives, and you _CAN_ blame the loader if it does not make the _CORRECT_ calls to the BIOS :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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