Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 08:27:15 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <19970914082715.NY17691@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709132104.OAA20111@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 13, 1997 21:04:52 %2B0000 References: <199709130622.BAA18777@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199709132104.OAA20111@usr08.primenet.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Any suggestions toward identifying FDC's with FIFO's? Preferably without > > taking something apart? > > Augh. Read the code! > > The driver already does what little chip detection is possible! But it does it wrong. Van Gilluwe (at least the first version) is wrong. The Linux driver seems more correct. I've never fixed this bug, since detecting the chip version is only important once we start to support 2.88 MB floppies. Starting to support this requires a major overhaul of the driver, since extending the existing one simply sucks. (I've tried it.) -- 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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