From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 15:15:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5471516A4E1; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF86843D4C; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:15:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [10.10.3.185] ([69.15.205.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6CFExY4061384; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:15:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <44B511EB.3060304@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:14:51 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev References: <200607120049.k6C0nlHN034350@repoman.freebsd.org> <200607112059.39655.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <44B48F0E.1050704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44B48F0E.1050704@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:15:10 -0000 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 08:49 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >> >>> jkim 2006-07-12 00:49:47 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> sys/dev/fdc fdc.c >>> Log: >>> Assume floppy disk is not inserted when we have exhausted >>> retries. This significantly reduces booting time when there is >>> broken floppy disk drive, controller, cable, BIOS, etc. >>> When the floppy controller interface is correctly implemented, >>> disk change signal (DSKCHG) is reflected in the Digital Input >>> Register (DIR) at 0x3f7. However, there are many cases that the >>> signal is unusable. Moreover, some BIOS does not reserve the port >>> at all. In those cases, the register may not function. >>> >>> Revision Changes Path >>> 1.311 +3 -0 src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc.c >> >> >> Linux device driver seems to have 'broken_dcl' boot time option to >> work around this issue, i.e., assuming disk change for every floppy >> disk access, which is quite ugly, IMHO. Does anybody have better idea >> to fix these cases? > > > Not really relevant, but who cares about floppy in 2006 when one can buy > 256MB USB flash for the price of the pack of floppies? ;-) > > No offense intended, just curious. > > -Maxim Who cares about ATA in 2006 when one can buy a really good SAS RAID controller? Scott