Re: Linux-2.1.98..
Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@CX492564-a.dt1.sdca.home.com)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:00:39 -0700
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 10:34:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Bill Broadhurst wrote:
> >
> > Let it sit awhile. You'll eventually get more messages. See my post
> > to Linus and list.
>
> Can you check what happens with:
> (a) no floppy driver compiled in at all
> (b) the floppy driver compiled in, but with the calls to
> "fd_enable_irq()" and "fd_disable_irq()" commented out.
>
> The irq enable/disable code has some problems with the IO-APIC, and I'd
> like to pinpoint whether this is the reason for your problems or not. We
> should fix the IO-APIC problems too, of course, but that will take some
> more doing.
>
Will do! Starting now. Should have answers within the hour.
-bb
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