From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 17 00:32:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29920 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA29905 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA19043 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00504; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:31:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA07598; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:19:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970615151932.ZQ32245@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:19:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.com Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Subject: Re: floppy, redux References: <19970612151521.6346.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970612151521.6346.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Jun 12, 1997 15:15:21 -0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mark thompson wrote: > The floppy controller/DMA unit comes in for suspicion. Unfortunately, > this started shortly after going to 2.2.1 from 2.1.7, so i also suspect > the driver. The driver hasn't changed much during the last years. I bet you're erroneously using the buffered devices, where you should use the raw ones, are you? This vastly increases the source of possible problems, by including the entire buffer cache into suspicion. -- 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. ;-)