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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 06:23:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Load Defaults" was my cure! (Was: Re: Do *you* have problems with
Message-ID:  <199709220623.XAA16366@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709220300.WAA02213@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at Sep 21, 97 10:00:39 pm

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> > > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
> > > fdc0: NEC 72065B
> > 
> > As i've stated earlier, this is just non-information only.  You gotta
> > open the case of your machine to learn what FDC you're using.  The
> > above information is wrong anyway, and it's impossible to get the
> > actual FDC make by (documented) electronic means.
> 
> Arrrg. I've been meaning to open the cases. Rebooted today and forgot.

I have revised probe code which I can send you.  It is a kind of
half-way transition to a seperation of the controller and floppy
device attaches into seperate drivers.  It can probe 12 different
controllers (one more than Linux 8-)) before it gets confused.


> > I should drop the above message from the floppy driver, it's less than
> > useless.
> > 
> > Tor Egge seems to have traced his problem down to the Winbond chip,
> > and the best guess one can make out of his test data is that the bus
> > interface of the chip (*not* the floppy interface) is broken.  Perhaps
> > it's not noticing DMA overruns.

I can't probe this particular chip, because I don't have a feature
list that distinguishes it... sorry.  I probably recognize it as a
different chipset.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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