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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD can't find fd1 3.5" floppy
Date: 27 Sep 1993 12:54:38 +0100
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH Dresden, Germany
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Message-ID: <286k9uINNhp5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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Keywords: floppy probe routine startup
In <2C9FC15C.23015@news.service.uci.edu> bob@beamlab () writes:
>My FreeBSD 1.0 gamma system fails to notice
>the 3.5 inch floppy drive, though it works
>fine with the 5.25 inch drive.
>I originally reported the trouble as a panic
>caused by the floppy driver. In response
>Jordan Hubbard kindly sent me a new fd.c,
>which is improved in the sense that it
>exits gracefully with "device not configured"
>but still won't let me use the drive.
Are you totally sure your drive is registered with the CMOS?
The only thing that's been changed in the newer driver is
that non-registered drives will report an ENXIO now, instead
of hanging the system in case there really hadn't been a drive.
Note, dos usually can even work with non-registered drives
(wonder how they do it though).
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