Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:19:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.com Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Subject: Re: floppy, redux Message-ID: <19970615151932.ZQ32245@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970612151521.6346.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Jun 12, 1997 15:15:21 -0000 References: <19970612151521.6346.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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As mark thompson wrote: > The floppy controller/DMA unit comes in for suspicion. Unfortunately, > this started shortly after going to 2.2.1 from 2.1.7, so i also suspect > the driver. The driver hasn't changed much during the last years. I bet you're erroneously using the buffered devices, where you should use the raw ones, are you? This vastly increases the source of possible problems, by including the entire buffer cache into suspicion. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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