Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 05:59:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: steve2@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo 250MB ft, and FreeBSD 2.0R Message-ID: <199504050959.FAA03821@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199504050234.TAA09378@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 4, 95 07:34:43 pm
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > > > > > The "ready for output in input" errors are par for the course. Ignore them. > > > I thought I heard that the current maintainer of the driver was going to > > > get rid of them by 2.1, but they're still there. > > > > I submitted a patch some time ago but nobody committed it. There was also > > a fix in there to keep the motor from being activated during the probe for > > people who do not have tape drives. I re-sent this fix to Rod a couple of > > weeks ago but I'm not sure what he's doing with it. > > I have tested the patch here, and it is sitting in my tree ready for commit, > I am waiting on Joerg Wunsch to finish his review of it (since I only > had a drive to test with for a short time, and only one model of drive > I felt it best to get a second review before commiting). > > > The fix within ft to avoid the messages works, but the correct way to > > remove them is to get them out of the fd driver in the first place. In my > > opinion they should only be debug messages, since it's not as if the user > > can take some corrective action after seeing them. It would be nice if > > someone did this before 2.1 is burned. > > Some one from the fdc driver camp care to comment about this? I'll say something since I put the warning in (but I think there is really only one person in the FDC driver camp...). It was a problem that this warning complained about that caused the "2.0 boot floppy fails on Micronics motherboard" problem, which is why I added the warning. If we take it out it perhaps a similar problem will creap back in. At the time I put in the warning I figured we could eliminate all the problems this indicated. If I was wrong and this really isn't indicative of a problem in the driver logic then by all means rip it out. I don't have a floppy tape and don't get any of these warnings. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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