alpha/30486: AlphaServer DS10 floppy access is broken

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On May 25, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:28:40AM +0000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote..
>> Synopsis: AlphaServer DS10 floppy access is broken
>>
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
>> State-Changed-By: marcel
>> State-Changed-When: Wed May 25 07:27:57 GMT 2005
>> State-Changed-Why:
>> Please try with rev. 1.51 of src/sys/alpha/alpha/busdma_machdep.c
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30486
>
> Somewhat better in the sense that no panic occurs when 
> accessing/probing
> the floppy.  This could get you in an endless panic/reboot loop when
> a floppy was left in the drive.

Yes, I had the same. This solved my data read/write problems.

> But not good either:
>
> ds10#fdformat /dev/fd0
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> Processing EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE done.

Hmmm, this sounds like another problem. The PIO problem mentioned
in the PR. I'll try formatting a disk later today.

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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel at xcllnt.net