Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:51:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Vlad N/A" <voodoo1man@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info on inverted dlc on some Thinkpad's floppy drives? Message-ID: <199912200151.SAA05700@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19991219052622.48436.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19991219052622.48436.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> I have a thinkpad 755c with a built-in floppy drive that uses an inverted > convention for the disk change line; Can you be a bit more specific about what you mean by the above? I ran 755's for years in FreeBSD without any problems whatsoever, although it did require using pcvt in early release, after I got the syscons maintainer to generate a patch, syscons worked fine using a boot flag. Nate ; several other Thinkpads also have this > problem (my father's 'butterfly' with an external floppy didn't), and the > linux kernel provides a fix for it with a kernel option. I've looked around > several FAQs and haven't found any mention of this about FreeBSD. Is there > any (easy) work-around or does the FreeBSD kernel have to be changed? > > Thanks, > Vlad > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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