From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 19 06:50:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA07214 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 06:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) 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 GAA07209 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 06:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA23248 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:50:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA00447; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:36:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971019153639.DJ26052@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 15:36:39 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fd.c and Compaq AERO References: 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: ; from Alexander Hausner on Sep 11, 1997 14:02:38 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Alexander Hausner wrote: > There is a problem concerning detection of the pcmcia-floppy > on compaq aero notebooks. I found some entries in the freebsd-questions > archive: Well, this is a heads-up for those who don't read the commit messages (and serves also reference purposes in the list archives): The proposed hack looked too disgusting to me. Instead, i've just committed the code and documentation for a `flags 0x1' to the fdc config line (so it can also be specified from within UserConfig). Setting this flag will pretend a floppy drive 0 of type 1.44 MB, regardless of what the CMOS says. This is supposedly a good enough bandaid for those plagued by the Compaq Aero. -- 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. ;-)