From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 14:15:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCD414FDF; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:15:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03733; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912092215.OAA03733@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: MCA support In-Reply-To: <199912092159.NAA01426@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 9, 1999 01:59:40 pm" To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:15:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this > > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like > > the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a > > normal 1.44M drive would be good too. > > The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8) I can confirm the loader problem on IBM MCA machines with 2.88M drives, and you _CAN_ blame the loader if it does not make the _CORRECT_ calls to the BIOS :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message