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- From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD: Problem in wd.c (?) - affects swap, non-atatched drive(s)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.155504.5110@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:55:04 GMT
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- Joseph Thomas (jpt@uh.msc.edu) wrote:
- : Okay - here's a problems I haven't seen talked about and it's
- : not in the FAQ. Before I go chase it down and come up with some (possibly
- : unique to my system) fix, has anyone else run across this ??? Thanks.
-
- This really SHOULD be in the FAQ since it affects ANYONE using MFM/RLL
- drives and having installed the patches from the patchkit.
-
- [Diatribe of problem deleted.]
-
- : Anyone have any ideas??? Thought it was worth asking before I really
- : dig into this (not that I've had time before now - but things look good
- : for the next week or two).
-
- I went through the exact same thing a few weeks ago and came up with the
- same symptoms... When I posted the same sort of message to the net that
- you did, someone sent me a message telling me exactly what I'm telling
- you now.
-
- If you use the Norway wd driver, you won't have this problem, you will
- also have proper bad144 support and proper multi-drive support. You
- Can get the Norway wd driver from agate.berkeley.edu in (I think) the
- unsupported directories. It might be under "barsoom" (which is where
- it originated). Anyways, the file I got was called "drivepatch.tar" and
- contains:
-
- rwxr-xr-x 268/20 0 Jul 31 04:27 1992 ./
- rw-r--r-- 268/20 3162 Jul 31 04:22 1992 fd.c.patch
- rw-r--r-- 268/20 396 Jul 31 04:22 1992 isa_device.h.patch
- rw-r--r-- 268/20 5098 Jul 31 04:21 1992 mkioconf.c.patch
- rw-r--r-- 268/20 3510 Jul 31 04:22 1992 wd.c.patch
- rw-r--r-- 268/20 991 Jul 31 04:23 1992 CONFIG.SAMPLE
-
- I sent Terry a message when I discovered this asking him to possibly
- remove the appropriate patches from his next release of the patchkit
- and replace them with these patches but I didn't receive a response
- which could indicate that he's either very busy (likely) or didn't
- receive my message. (or third possibility: thinks I'm a weenie and
- chose to ignore me. :-> )
-
- Anyways, this is definitely one for the FAQ.. (Terry; are you listening?)
-
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