Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:42:38 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new fdc(4) and new fdcontrol(8) behavior (5.3-BETA5) Message-ID: <8360.1095770558@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:23:54 PDT." <20040921122354.73480.qmail@web14827.mail.yahoo.com>
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In message <20040921122354.73480.qmail@web14827.mail.yahoo.com>, Rostislav Kras ny writes: >dmesg fragment from 5.3-BETA5 (verbose): > >fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80 >fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on >isa0 >Why the 3F7h port isn't used by new fdc(4) on my system? Is it a >hardware detection bug? Warner is working on this issue. > >2. fdcontrol cannot access /dev/fd0 when there is no diskette inserted > >When no diskette is inserted then running 'fdcontrol [anyflag] >/dev/fd0' produce following error message: > >fdcontrol: open(/dev/fd0): Device not configured We don't have a specific errno for "No media in drive". It would have been nice, but defining errno's is a tricky business. >What is inspected behavior of fdcontrol(8) in 5.3-BETA5? Isn't its >current behavior buggy? Is it concerned with 3F7h port that is not used >on my system by the new fdc(4) driver? The 0x3f7 is a bug, and as I said Warner is working on that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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