From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 21 23:23:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA18061 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA18056 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16366; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:23:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709220623.XAA16366@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: "Load Defaults" was my cure! (Was: Re: Do *you* have problems with To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 06:23:54 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709220300.WAA02213@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at Sep 21, 97 10:00:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > > > fdc0: NEC 72065B > > > > As i've stated earlier, this is just non-information only. You gotta > > open the case of your machine to learn what FDC you're using. The > > above information is wrong anyway, and it's impossible to get the > > actual FDC make by (documented) electronic means. > > Arrrg. I've been meaning to open the cases. Rebooted today and forgot. I have revised probe code which I can send you. It is a kind of half-way transition to a seperation of the controller and floppy device attaches into seperate drivers. It can probe 12 different controllers (one more than Linux 8-)) before it gets confused. > > I should drop the above message from the floppy driver, it's less than > > useless. > > > > Tor Egge seems to have traced his problem down to the Winbond chip, > > and the best guess one can make out of his test data is that the bus > > interface of the chip (*not* the floppy interface) is broken. Perhaps > > it's not noticing DMA overruns. I can't probe this particular chip, because I don't have a feature list that distinguishes it... sorry. I probably recognize it as a different chipset. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.