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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0 Date: 27 Nov 1996 00:37:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <57g2ft$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329abf4c.222061@news.eunet.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E cleto@e-link.ch (Cleto Pescia) wrote: > I get "Error: fdc0: input / output ready timeout" when I try to use ft > on my FreeBSD 2.1.5R system. The fdc0 is the one integrated > on the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 mainboard, and the tape backup > unit is a Iomega Tape 250. The BIOS is Award, v.4.50G > (rel. 105). > > The kernel and everything else should be correctly configured, at > least from what I found in the FreeBSD doc. > > Is there a way to solve this problem, or should I give up? Can you try a different (external) floppy controller? The UMC8669F on the P55T2P4 is known to be not bug-compatible with the NE765. While Bruce Evans found a suitable workaround to at least get the diskettes working on it, i'm afraid nobody has tested floppy tape access on these FDCs yet. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)