Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:10:24 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: broken floppy driver Message-ID: <199611140910.UAA06709@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have the same problem (dma channel 2 busy) and the occasional panic >(2.2-961014-SNAP). No more details currently, the machine is at home >and I wanted to try to get more information first. > >BTW, I'm sure the floppies I feed my drive are good; written here at >work on a 2.1.0-machine and I can read them back without problems. The message "isa_dmastart: channel 2 busy" is normal after floppy i/o errors. It is caused by the fd driver's poor error handling. This shouldn't cause a panic. However, syscons' and probably pcvt's output routines are not reentrant, so its quite possible for interrupting normal console i/o to print a panic message to cause a panic :-(. Bruce
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