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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Floppy woes (was Re: Beginner's problems with 386BSD)
Message-ID: <kmlmd!a.alm@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 09:54:12 GMT
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>Due to a couple of niggling things, it will not work. Remove the
>/dev/rfd0a and /dev/fd0a devices, then MAKEDEV fd0. As it turns
>out, mtools wants /dev/rfd0c, not the "a" partition on the floppy
>drives. Alturnatively, you can re-compile mtools to use
>/dev/rfd0a instead of /dev/rfd0c (I found that creating the correct
>devices was more expediante.)
Another problem is the floppy gets "stuck" after 386bsd boots. Any
mtools operation seems not to work and to be uninterruptable. I
thought I had solved this problem by moving my video card from a 16
bit isa slot to an 8 bit one. This allowed me to install 386bsd on
the hard disk. But now that it's installed, the floppy is acting
up again! There might still be a memory conflict (though in
principle there shouldn't be), but maybe there is a work around
too?
The video card is a OEM Paradise SVGA. I don't see any mention of
interrupts (someone had IRQ 2 problems). The floppies are run off
an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>