From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:02:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B8A37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trillian.santala.org (ip212-226-173-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.173.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C52943FCB for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@iki.fi) Received: (qmail 8626 invoked by uid 11053); 8 Apr 2003 20:02:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 20:02:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:02:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Jarkko Santala X-X-Sender: jake@trillian.santala.org To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Oliver Schonefeld In-Reply-To: <20030408184159.GA23338@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Message-ID: <20030408225205.L316@trillian.santala.org> References: <20030408184159.GA23338@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: fdc0 on 164LX (Was: Re: problems with fdc0 device) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:02:32 -0000 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Oliver Schonefeld wrote: > Eines schoenen Tages schrieb Wilko Bulte: > [problems with floppies] > > On my Tsunami-chipset based box (a DS10) I never got the floppy to work > > correctly with FreeBSD. Not a hardware problem, something in FreeBSD. I > > would not be surprised the XP1000 has the same problem. > > Hm ... has anyone ever gotten the floppy work on a DEC PC164LX Mainboard? I haven't had problems with floppy drive and my PC164, although it admittedly is not quite the same as PC164LX. On a some what related note, I wasn't able to boot 5.0 kern.flp on a AS200 though, it just stops while loading the kernel and gives an error message. If someone's interested, I can give more detailed info, but I'll probably just find a SCSI CD-ROM somewhere and use that to get the installation going again. When previously installing 5.0 from a CD to a different hard drive on that very same box the installer would just hang during package extraction, but I managed to overcome that by installing only the very minimum set of stuff which it was able to finish before the hang happened. After that the box worked fine, except if I tried to use the built-in ethernet adapter for anything more intensive than ping the box would hang again. An Intel 10/100 card worked just fine and I was able to make buildworld etc. It seems mysterious things sometimes happen with older hardware, -jake -- Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64