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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:51:53 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc.c
Message-ID:  <200607121151.57718.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <44B495BF.6080503@root.org>
References:  <200607120049.k6C0nlHN034350@repoman.freebsd.org> <44B48F0E.1050704@FreeBSD.org> <44B495BF.6080503@root.org>

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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 02:25 am, Nate Lawson wrote:
> You CAN'T get rid of the fdc, even if you want to.  It's an
> embedded part of the Super I/O chips even if your machine has no
> floppy drive (i.e. laptop).  So anything that slows down probing of
> it will slow down your boot.

Yes, that was my motivation.  One of my colleagues at work tried to 
install FreeBSD on a brand new 2U server and he complained FreeBSD 
cannot be installed on the box while other operating systems have no 
problem.  Of course, I don't like that kind of complaints. ;-)
Rev. 1.310 fixes 'hang' and 1.311 fixes 'slow boot' problem.  This 
problem is quite common with newer floppy controller and 'slim' 
floppy disk drive, it seems.

Jung-uk Kim



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