Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 07:50:17 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709151250.HAA22146@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:29:59 %2B0200." <19970915082959.QR50985@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch writes: > > Btw., Tor Egge meanwhile confirmed that his motherboard/chipset is > broken. >From my archive: Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no said: > 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. Does this say, "Tor's MB is broken?" I went back to my P6NP5's BIOS, selected "LOAD DEFAULTS" then touched up a few little things like parity enable. Noticed Passive Release went from Enabled to Disabled. And mostly *my* problems have disappeared too. Was able to get one or two errors off the FDC. However at this moment I don't really remember if I left "Passive Release" enabled or disabled. But loading BIOS defaults made a definite difference. Otherwise I had been running whatever the BIOS was when the board came out of the box, plus a few touchups for ISA IRQ's due to PNP crap. And the Bovine RC5V2 client went from 425k keys/sec to 426k keys/sec on a PPro 166/512k. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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