From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 21:32:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02318 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02313 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00416; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Eric Berenguier cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Floppy drive problem: crash the computer ! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Eric Berenguier wrote: > >Ouch. Have you checked your floppy drive cable, drive, and controller? > >Wow, it must be nasty if it panics the system. :( > > > I forgot to say the controller card was vesa local bus. > I've tried another controller card (isa) and it worked fine > > are there any known problem with vlb cards ? > is there a patch to solve the problem ? > it's obviously a software problem, because it works fine with msdos. Not exactly. FreeBSD twists your hardware in ways that MS-DOS would never, and can uncover hidden bugs in firmware. If an ISA card works fine then I would try to find a different VLB card. Avoid the Promise brand cards, they aren't 100% compatible. Also double-check your IRQ assignments and make sure no two things are using the same IRQ. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major