From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 16 22:55:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA05103 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:55:19 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA05096 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:55:18 -0700 Received: from genesis.tiac.net (genesis.tiac.net [204.180.76.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id WAA21123 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:52:38 -0700 Received: by genesis.tiac.net (8.6.9/genesis0.0) id BAA01687; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 01:53:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 01:53:50 -0400 From: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) Message-Id: <199504170553.BAA01687@genesis.tiac.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/347: ft0 not detected at boot Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'll try to make this less restrictive, so this flag will no longer be > needed for the ``more common'' tape drives. (It is needed for things > like an Insight tape that require the motor lines to be enabled, and > hence clash with connected diskette drives even during a false probe.) That's fine to force a probe for them. What I'd like to find out from an Insight owner is what unit numbers can be selected on their tape drives (jumpers??). The logic I submitted a while back was to not probe an Insight if there is known to be a real floppy drive using that unit number. If Insight owners can set their unit number to something like 2 (or 1 if they have only one disk) then it won't interfere with disks. Also, any idea how to set a 2Mb/s transfer rate on some of the newer fdc's? (I was told such a chip exists but who knows. :-)) I've added support for 1Mb/s transfers and fifo's when using tape on my system but I'd like to be able to test for 2 as well. - Steve steve2@genesis.tiac.net