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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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