Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709141019.DAA15165@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970914082715.NY17691@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 14, 97 08:27:15 am
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> > 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.) OK. I grant the point (having recently looked at the Linux code); the hardware detect for the 2.88 is rather clever. I agree that simply stuffing a new table entry is not sufficient for 2.88. 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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