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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 1996 09:42:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject:   Re: ft0 doesn't work with new motherboard
Message-ID:  <199609090742.JAA07694@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199609072204.WAA00253@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> from Mark Hannon at "Sep 7, 96 10:04:53 pm"

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As Mark Hannon wrote:

> Some month ago I upgraded to a Pentium motherboard for my FreeBSD system.
> Prior to that change I had been using a Conner floppy tape drive with some
> success.

What floppy controller is there?  (The chip ID from the board, not
what FreeBSD claims it were.)

> ===> tape_cmd: 6
> ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1  newcn = 6
> ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1  newcn = 6
> ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 1  newcn = 6
> ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2  newcn = 6
> ft0: bad seek in tape_cmd; pcn = 2  newcn = 6
> ft0: tape_cmd seek failed!

> Anybody now what this means?

I think it means the FDC doesn't correctly grok `seek' commands.
These commands are used for floppy tapes to send out the tape command.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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