Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:27:27 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PATCH for Sun4c clones with an 82077 FDC |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:03:34AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > I have been having trouble working out why my sun4c sparc clone could not > find the floppy drive. I was being blind as floppy.h assumes that all > sun4c machines only have an 82072 FDC. This asumption is not valid for > some clones (OPUS Personal Mainframe 5000 sun4c sparc1 clone for one). > The patch below checks to see if it is an 82072 using a simple test before > assuming that we have an 82072. It works on my clone but it needs to be > checked on a sun4c system with an 82072 FDC. > Can someone with a sun4c system that has an 82072 check it to see if it > works for them. The extra two printk messages are more for diagnostics > when the patch is being tested (via prom console). If it does not break > 82072 sun4c systems then the two diagnostic messages can be removed. If it > does break the 82072 sun4c systems, then a more complicated test is > needed that does not.
Okay, can this be done without media? I have the sun4c's, but not floppy media. I suppose I could obtain some for the occasion.
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