Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:47:29 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1
Message-ID:  <20031103214729.GA8221@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <20031103210959.58d4afc1.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > Hi Wilko,
> > 
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > > At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a
> > > long time
> > 
> > Hm... Ok - EV56 here.. Maybe I should manage to find my old backups
> > made with the 4 system. Back to 2001 I remember that I was able to boot
> > from floppy (I was playing around with a non-bootable scsi controller and
> > booting from flopy+changing rootdev then) on an other AlphaPC 164LX.
> 
> Booting floopy and changin rootdev doesn't require floppy support in
> kernel.
> But it's still interesting - I have no floppy either :(
> I thought the tsunami issue was non working floppy and not non
> existing?

Non working, last time I tried:

fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold^M
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0^M

on

FreeBSD 4.9-RC #3: Thu Oct 16 09:25:37 CEST 2003^M
    root@ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DS10^M


Furtheron:

fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
0x3f7,0x3f
0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M

on

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 01:42:39 GMT 2003^M
    root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC^M


I have not tried to use it then, but it was detected .

-- 
|   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031103214729.GA8221>