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From: Joel Sutton <sutton@aardvark.apana.org.au>
To: jservice@OHT.Hydro.ON.CA
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Subject: Re: Boot floppy probing of ft works, built kernel doesn't... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:00:02 -0400."
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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...