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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2005 09:35:35 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: alpha/30486: AlphaServer DS10 floppy access is broken
Message-ID:  <5aa43d08238e5e05501831a68575fbd5@xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050525115710.GA11176@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200505250728.j4P7SefF044410@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050525115710.GA11176@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On May 25, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:28:40AM +0000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote..
>> Synopsis: AlphaServer DS10 floppy access is broken
>>
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
>> State-Changed-By: marcel
>> State-Changed-When: Wed May 25 07:27:57 GMT 2005
>> State-Changed-Why:
>> Please try with rev. 1.51 of src/sys/alpha/alpha/busdma_machdep.c
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30486
>
> Somewhat better in the sense that no panic occurs when 
> accessing/probing
> the floppy.  This could get you in an endless panic/reboot loop when
> a floppy was left in the drive.

Yes, I had the same. This solved my data read/write problems.

> But not good either:
>
> ds10#fdformat /dev/fd0
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> Processing EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE done.

Hmmm, this sounds like another problem. The PIO problem mentioned
in the PR. I'll try formatting a disk later today.

-- 
  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net




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