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Date:      Sat, 6 May 1995 07:06:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@news.iadfw.net>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HELP! QIC-80 tape drive not probed by kernel
Message-ID:  <199505061206.HAA03032@news.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <199505050746.JAA03384@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 5, 95 09:46:14 am

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> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:46:14 +0200
> From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, steve2@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: HELP! QIC-80 tape drive not probed by kernel
> 
> Since this came up over and over again in Usenet (and i don't have an
> apparent solution since i don't have a floppy tape), here a forward:
> 
> In article <3o74s1$hoa@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> you write:
> >In article <1995May2.112336.3104@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>,
> >Serge S. Maleyev <serg@klara.weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> >>Rafael Araujo (Rafael_Araujo@p128.f151.n5020.z2.fidonet.org) wrote:
> >
> >>: controller     fdc0    at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
> >>			        ^
> >>				|
> >>			     flags 0x1
> >>			Just add this.
> >
> >He did:
> >
> >>: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 0x1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
> >
> >I'm having this same problem.  The flags argument to the controller doesn't
> >work in all cases apparently.  And to the number of people who emailed me,
> >*YES* I did config, compile, and boot the new kernel, I'm not a moron.
> >
> >There's something up here, and nobody seems to know what it is.
> >
> >*Sigh*
> >
> >Someday I'll be able to back up my system.
> >
> >Shawn
> >
> >--
> >Shawn Brown | shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu | California State University, Chico
> ><a href="http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~shawnb">Shawn's Chaosphere is here</a>
> 
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
>                                    http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> 
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

i had this problem on one system before, pentium/pci[ncr pci, ncr scsi]...

pissed me off..  had to do a floppy install of 950210..

so far as i can tell, only one of four machines [2 pentium/pci's, 
486 isa/vesa, and a 486 isa] that i have installed freebsd on have had this 
problem.

Jim
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