Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:47:29 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1 Message-ID: <20031103214729.GA8221@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20031103210959.58d4afc1.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > Hi Wilko,
> >
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >
> > > At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a
> > > long time
> >
> > Hm... Ok - EV56 here.. Maybe I should manage to find my old backups
> > made with the 4 system. Back to 2001 I remember that I was able to boot
> > from floppy (I was playing around with a non-bootable scsi controller and
> > booting from flopy+changing rootdev then) on an other AlphaPC 164LX.
>
> Booting floopy and changin rootdev doesn't require floppy support in
> kernel.
> But it's still interesting - I have no floppy either :(
> I thought the tsunami issue was non working floppy and not non
> existing?
Non working, last time I tried:
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold^M
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0^M
on
FreeBSD 4.9-RC #3: Thu Oct 16 09:25:37 CEST 2003^M
root@ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DS10^M
Furtheron:
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
0x3f7,0x3f
0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M
on
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 01:42:39 GMT 2003^M
root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC^M
I have not tried to use it then, but it was detected .
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