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Date:      Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:09:42 +1000
From:      Joel Sutton <sutton@aardvark.apana.org.au>
To:        jservice@OHT.Hydro.ON.CA
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot floppy probing of ft works, built kernel doesn't... 
Message-ID:  <199704280409.OAA00741@solsbury-hill.home>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:00:02 -0400." <199704251900.PAA04852@pc-servicej.rd.hydro.on.ca> 

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> I have 1 floppy drive and 1 floppy tape drive in my Pentium 166.  The 2.2.1
> boot floppy correctly recognizes the fd and the ft devices I have but the
> kernel I have installed with the following options:
> 
> controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
> disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive 0
> disk		fd1	at fdc0 drive 1
> tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive 1

Try something like this:

controller   fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
tape	     ft0  at fdc0 drive 2

>   a) Why is the ft device being recognized by the boot floppy kernel and not
>      this one?

Because you've specified drive 1 for both fd1 and ft0. 

>   b) Would I have the actual boot floppy kernel sources buried in /usr/src
>      somewhere so I can compare?

Hopefully this should get you going. 

What sort of drive do you have?

Hope this helps, Joel...





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