Re: various problems with 2.0.36pre (SCSI, floppy)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:48:05 +0000 (GMT)


> -#define fd_outb(port,value) outb_p(port,value)
> +#define fd_outb(value,port) outb_p(value,port)

Grin

I'll look at the geometry one in a moment

> 3. There is one machine over there which hangs on line floppy.c:4079 -
> fd_outb(FDCS->dor, FD_DOR); where FDCS->dor==4, FD_DOR==0x3f2
> during boot. Last kernel tested 2.0.36pre10. More info on
> http://crds.chemie.unibas.ch/machine/dave/

Ah I got sent a patch for some buggy FDC (attached) - does it help ?

> and floppy. Another strange thing about this machine (P200 MMX, Award 4.51PG
> BIOS, 430HX chipset) is that it hangs every time PS/2 mouse is moved before
> its driver is loaded. Is it hardware problem, or should I upgrade the BIOS?
> Win95 do not have any problems though.

Very strange indeed. I really dont know.

Alan