From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 17:50:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web704.mail.yahoo.com (web704.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E16F37B672 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6081 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Oct 2000 00:50:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20001013005014.6080.qmail@web704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.14.206.104] by web704.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:50:14 PDT Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:50:14 -0700 (PDT) From: bill fiore Subject: Re: fbsd2.2.1->fbsd4.0 are adaptec 1542 floppies supported? To: Andy Farkas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am sorry if i did not elaborate on which controllers were enabled and when. With the 1542 fdc controller enabled and the fdc on the motherboard DISABLED ...I get the direction bit and cmd 3 errors described below. With the 1542 fdc controller DISABLED and the fdc on the mother board ENABLED...I get NO fcd error messages. Does it make sense?...are floppies on the 1542 supported? ================== --- Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, bill fiore wrote: > > > I get a fdc direction bit error and a > > cmd 3 error during the boot up probe. > > > > If I move the floppy cable to the fdc > controller > > on the mother board, I dont get the errors? > > You are not describing your problem very well. > Please elaborate. > > Make sure when one fdc is enabled, the other is > disabled. It may be that > you can't disable the motherboard's fdc > properly... > > > > ===== William F. Fiore Jr. ($bilfjr) <<<<< N.B. new address 88 harris av cranston, R.I. 02910 USA 401-946-5703 USA EST (voice/vmail) 1-877-789-1992 USA (vmail/fax - toll free) dollarbilfjr@yahoo.com www.geocities.com/dollarbilfjr/dollarbilfjr.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message