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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: floppy tape config, take 2
Date: 25 Jun 1995 16:49:30 +0200
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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References: <DAEGn4.5Fv@mv.mv.com> <3sbm9s$om@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3sgo9c$6jo@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3shrj5$6ik@hydra.msgi.com>
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:
>>Is your tape (erroneusly) announced as an Insight tape?
>
>Nope, shows up as a Colorado. I've verified the behavior (and
>need for the flag setting) using both -c and a new kernel.
My Colorado shows up without it. Please, verify that the file
/sys/i386/isa/ft.c your kernel has been built with does indeed
containt the code snippet i've been posting, and that the following
patch is already applied to /sys/i386/isa/fd.c. This should be the
case for fd.c revision 1.59 and higher:
Index: fd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/home/cvs/src/sys/i386/isa/fd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.58
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.58 -r1.59
--- 1.58 1995/04/20 03:17:44
+++ 1.59 1995/05/06 19:34:25
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@
#endif
#include "fd.h"
-/* Flags */
-#define FT_PROBE 0x1
-
#if NFDC > 0
#include <sys/param.h>
@@ -605,8 +602,7 @@
unithasfd = 0;
if (fdu < NFD && fd->type != NO_TYPE)
unithasfd = 1;
- if ((dev->id_flags & FT_PROBE) &&
- ftattach(dev, fdup, unithasfd))
+ if (ftattach(dev, fdup, unithasfd))
continue;
if (fdsu < DRVS_PER_CTLR)
fd->type = NO_TYPE;
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)