Floppy detection on miata: solved.

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Thu Dec 4 15:41:58 PST 2003


Joerg Wunsch <j at uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
> I wouldn't object if /boot/device.hints on the alpha arch shipped with
> a default of hint.fd.0.flags="4" though, which basically has the same
> effect, but should at least give the careful reader a hint to read the
> man page...

Index: GENERIC.hints
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC.hints,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 GENERIC.hints
--- GENERIC.hints       14 Nov 2002 14:59:27 -0000      1.6
+++ GENERIC.hints       4 Dec 2003 23:36:48 -0000
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
 hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
 hint.fd.0.drive="0"
+hint.fd.0.flags="4"
 hint.ata.0.at="isa"
 hint.ata.0.port="0x1F0"
 hint.ata.0.irq="14"

re@, could this go in before the branch?  for those who don't follow
-alpha, this is required for the floppy to work on Alpha because the
driver fails to auto-detect the drive capacity.

DES
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