Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 11:15:15 CST From: Jim Babb <babb@sedhps01.mdc.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) (Terry Lambert) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, babb@sedhps01.mdc.com, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.sax.de Subject: Re: Colorado 250 Tape Drive Message-ID: <199501171718.JAA10537@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <9501171619.AA26694@cs.weber.edu>; from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 17, 95 9:19 am
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> > > > I think the number of people with working tape drives far outnumber the > > > number of people with broken floppy drives, so the logic of the flag > > > should be inverted, such that you set the flag to *disable* the probe. > > [ ... ] > > > I suggested this just a couple of days ago and got no comments back.. > > Unless somebody pipes up soon, I will indeed do this for 2.1 > > I haven't heard the results since the floppy tape was moved to ft2; do > people still get hangs? The floppy tape has always been on drive 2 (even though it is device ft0) (I should know - I put it there). The hangs were most likely caused by the extra interrupt generated by some controller chips during the write protect check (which is now fixed). > > Which is more important for install, a guaranteed working floppy, or a > conveniently already working floppy tape? You can have both (and we do) - it's just a matter of which one to make the default. In the case of a broken drive that gets upset by the tape probe, boot with -c and set the fdc flag so the tape probe gets skipped. The benefit - no more questions: "Why doesn't my tape work any more?". Jim
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