From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 00:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23756 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA23737 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA04923 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:20:38 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA19628; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:14:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970916091455.RH14318@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:14:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? References: <19970916013516.JM28299@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709160317.WAA27618@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709160317.WAA27618@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sep 15, 1997 22:17:55 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > p.s.: Does your mainboard also have a Winbond chip for the FDC? Quite > > possible that this is the actual culprit. I think my board has an SMC > > chip. > > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > fdc0: NEC 72065B As i've stated earlier, this is just non-information only. You gotta open the case of your machine to learn what FDC you're using. The above information is wrong anyway, and it's impossible to get the actual FDC make by (documented) electronic means. I should drop the above message from the floppy driver, it's less than useless. Tor Egge seems to have traced his problem down to the Winbond chip, and the best guess one can make out of his test data is that the bus interface of the chip (*not* the floppy interface) is broken. Perhaps it's not noticing DMA overruns. > Also have access to a Gateway P133 with a VX chipset and same FDC but Really the same FDC? Again, verify visually. > have not had any problems with it. Nor with my $100 5x86/133 CPU & MB > which "only" has a NEC 765. A real NE765? I.e., the 40-pin chip? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)