From owner-cvs-share Mon Apr 10 12:13:32 1995 Return-Path: cvs-share-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20022 for cvs-share-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 12:13:32 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA20009 ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 12:13:27 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA29745; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 12:13:18 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA26329; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:09:42 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504101909.UAA26329@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/FAQ/Text FreeBSD.FAQ To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:09:42 +0100 (BST) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-share@time.cdrom.com, jkh@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504090952.CAA18087@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 9, 95 02:52:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 996 Sender: cvs-share-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > > > This should be fixed properly before it becomes a FAWrongQ. Drivers > > > should be disabled by setting id_enabled to 1, not by setting some > > > driver-dependent flag to 1. > > > > And how do you propose to do that for fdc0 in a way that will leave > > your floppies working? :-) > > This may be fixed, supposidly part of those patches that I have commited > to ft.c from Steve fixes that problem. It should be tested by a lot > of folks first though. I was one of the people suffering from thsi and the new code works fine. We may well have fixed this properly and we might be able to obfuscate the flag. I think the tape should be enable by default from now on so we can actually test this. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.