Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:12:56 +0000 From: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709131412.QAA17101@pat.idi.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 1997 13:06:45 %2B0200" References: <19970913130645.GS12767@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > > > And my MB is an Asus P6NP5, and early 2940. Changed out floppies (disk, > > not drive) and got essentially the same results. The problem seems to > > be in the writing. A disk formatted with errors reported verifies mostly > > the same errors. > > > > Keep the SCSI traffic down and there are no errors writing. > > Perhaps you guys have a lousy power supply (or a broken FDC)? 5.05V and 12.20V during the test. (300W power supply). FDC is a Winbond W83877F, 630AC262126202. > I've just tried it, and apart from some slowdown in the floppy > formatting part (an obvious sign that the driver loses floppy > revolutions when reading), no errors so far. This is with both of my > disks running iozone simultaneously. > > That's an ASUS P55T2P4 (i think it's using the SMC FDC+serial+ > parallel chip) and two NRC 53c810's. Is `Passive release' present as an configuration entry in the PNP/PCI screen in the BIOS configuration ? If yes, is it enabled or disabled ? When I disable `Passive release', the errors during formatting disappears. - Tor Egge
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