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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!usenet From: cleto@e-link.ch (Cleto Pescia) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:05:31 GMT Organization: Eurisco Information Systems Lines: 16 Message-ID: <329c8f32.387056@news.eunet.ch> References: <329abf4c.222061@news.eunet.ch> <57g2ft$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: cleto@e-link.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.72.189.4 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >Can you try a different (external) floppy controller? The UMC8669F on >the P55T2P4 is known to be not bug-compatible with the NE765. Unfortunately, that's not an option, since I don't have any free ISA slot... Anyway, thanks a lot for the tip. >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. Indeed, floppies seem to be working just fine on my P55T2P4, which happens to be rev. 2.1 Cleto