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From: alain@xon.co.uk
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: timeout on fd0
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>Number:         1756
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       timeout on fd0
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    joerg
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 10 16:10:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Oct 12 12:37:52 MET DST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 12 12:39:49 MET DST 1996
>Originator:     Alain Bartolo
>Release:        2.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I get timeouts on fd0 each time I try to do tars or dds either
when saving or reading.
My configuration is a Cyrix P150+ on an Asustek T2P4. I use an EIDE
DD, ATAPI CD and a VGA card - quite basic.
>How-To-Repeat:
For each read/write to floppy (3.5 - 1.44 NEC)
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: alain@xon.co.uk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/1756: timeout on fd0
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:48:56 +0200 (MET DST)

 As alain@xon.co.uk wrote:
 
 > I get timeouts on fd0 each time I try to do tars or dds either
 > when saving or reading.
 > My configuration is a Cyrix P150+ on an Asustek T2P4. I use an EIDE
 > DD, ATAPI CD and a VGA card - quite basic.
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > For each read/write to floppy (3.5 - 1.44 NEC)
 
 Normally, this is far too weak to serve as a useful bug report.
 Remember, the ``How-To-Repeat'' was meant to help somebody else
 repeating your problem, we trust you that it is repeatable for you.
 (No, the problem is not repeatable for others, except for owners of
 boards with the UMC8669F chip.  But you didn't write this detail
 explicitly, it's incident that we already know about this problem.)
 
 Upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD.  The UMC8669F chip has several
 imcompatibilities with the original hardware it tries to clone.  The
 floppy controller flaw has been worked around in FreeBSD 2.1.5, or
 2.2-current on 1996/03/31.  The UART bug is (partially?) worked around
 in FreeBSD 2.2-current since 1996/09/30.  (What is this bug?  Well,
 try running UUCP over it...)
 
 In case you don't wanna upgrade, get back to me in mail, and i will
 send you a patch for the floppy stuff.
 
 Btw., if the board is under warranty, get it replaced by something
 that doesn't use the UMC8669F.  We've successfully had boards with
 these chips replaced because they are plain buggy.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

From: alain@xon.co.uk
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: freebsd.org!freebsd-gnats-submit@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: conf/1756: timeout on fd0
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 13:41:42 BST

 Thank you very much for your quick reply.
 
 Alas, I'm not a techie, hardware speaking, and I did not know that my
 motherboard had the UMC8669F which is incompatible with the hardware
 it tries to clone. Also, I saw on the FreeBSD site that the Asustek
 motherboards are recommended and was recommended by several other
 friends.
 
 > Upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD.  The UMC8669F chip has several
 > imcompatibilities with the original hardware it tries to clone.  The
 > floppy controller flaw has been worked around in FreeBSD 2.1.5, or
 > 2.2-current on 1996/03/31.  The UART bug is (partially?) worked around
 > in FreeBSD 2.2-current since 1996/09/30.  (What is this bug?  Well,
 > try running UUCP over it...)
 
 I've applied for a subscription to FreeBSD and should receive
 FreeBSD-2.1.5 next week which according to you should have a patch for
 this problem.
 
 > In case you don't wanna upgrade, get back to me in mail, and i will
 > send you a patch for the floppy stuff.
 
 Yes, I am interested so that I can use my system until I upgrade to
 2.1.5.
 
 By the way, I am deeply amazed by the level of support you
 provide. Nothing like that would happen if I had gone for let's say
 SCO or SUN.
 
 I do hope to be able to contribute to the FreeBSD community by
 providing (on the software side only !!!!) new tools or extensions to tools.
 -- 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 12 12:37:52 MET DST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Already fixed in rev 1.83 of sys/i386/isa/fd.c. 



Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->	 joerg 
Responsible-Changed-By: joerg 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 12 12:37:52 MET DST 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Basically joerg's area. 
>Unformatted:
 
