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From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>
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The one in 2.0.5R is broken WRT FD controllers. I've did some fixes which seem 
to work, but they've yet to appear in a SNAP. Jordan Hubbard was supposed to 
be releasing a new SNAp with these fixes shortly.


> Hi,
> I have installed 2.0.5R on a 386DX40 and was trying to install a SCSI
> controller.  The one I have is a Future Domain TMC 850 controller
> using a TMC 950 chip.  It is a cheap nasty thing and was I believe a
> free give away with some CD ROM drive or other.  It is recognised
> during booting correctly, after which there is a pause for the scsi
> devices to settle.  With a tape drive plugged in, the tape is then
> probed, recognised, installed as st0 and all works fine.  With a
> disk however, after the pause, the disk light goes on and everything
> hangs with no further messages.  This happens whatever disk I use.
> I have tried an assortment of Seagate, Micropolis and DEC.
> Will these controllers work with disk drives, am I possibly doing
> something wrong, or is this a bug/feature?
> Thanks,
> Stuart Arnold
> 


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