From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 20:08:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25375 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25369 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA15968; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:38:31 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707200308.MAA15968@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: <22424.869361851@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 19, 97 06:24:11 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:38:31 +0930 (CST) Cc: sef@Kithrup.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > The ed1 entry is also the cause of much tech support for me since > it "catches" cards at 0x300 but invariably with the wrong IRQ, so the > user is tricked into thinking that things work until the install > is well underway and the only message they're now seeing is: > "ed1: device timeout" from the bogus IRQ value. I'm playing with some code at the moment which improves on the basic 'ed' probe insofar as it tries to talk to parts that are known to be soft-settable, or to have read their config from an eeprom, and then tries to generate an interrupt to suck-it-and-see. I don't know how successful this is going to be. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[