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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-05-06 19:34:28 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1995-05-06 19:34:28 +0000
commit09a74d468d8a1a0c4e36cddb3053598075a3ebc4 (patch)
treebaa17f4183a802c7a3c7ef1b60fc45fccab27343 /sys/i386/conf
parent9369e9783877d7da0269acf377e7651b9d634fcc (diff)
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Restructured the floppy tape probe.
The ``flags 1'' in the fdc line is now only needed for owners of an Insight tape (perhaps there aren't any? Mine is disfunctional). All other probes are safe wrt. to the motor-control line of floppy disk drives. Document the flag in LINT finally.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/i386/conf')
-rw-r--r--sys/i386/conf/LINT9
-rw-r--r--sys/i386/conf/NOTES9
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/LINT b/sys/i386/conf/LINT
index f5a0be9..e276a8f 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/LINT
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/LINT
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
# as much of the source tree as it can.
#
-# $Id: LINT,v 1.176 1995/04/28 00:51:18 dufault Exp $
+# $Id: LINT,v 1.177 1995/05/05 07:47:44 davidg Exp $
#
# NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
# file. Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -507,10 +507,17 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1
# Standard floppy disk controllers and floppy tapes: `fdc', `fd', and `ft'
#
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
+#
+# Activate this line instead of the fdc0 line above if you happen to
+# have an Insight floppy tape. Probing them proved to be dangerous
+# for people with floppy disks only, so it's "hidden" behind a flag:
+#controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
+
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
+
#
# Options for `fd':
#
diff --git a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
index f5a0be9..e276a8f 100644
--- a/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
# as much of the source tree as it can.
#
-# $Id: LINT,v 1.176 1995/04/28 00:51:18 dufault Exp $
+# $Id: LINT,v 1.177 1995/05/05 07:47:44 davidg Exp $
#
# NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
# file. Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -507,10 +507,17 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1
# Standard floppy disk controllers and floppy tapes: `fdc', `fd', and `ft'
#
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
+#
+# Activate this line instead of the fdc0 line above if you happen to
+# have an Insight floppy tape. Probing them proved to be dangerous
+# for people with floppy disks only, so it's "hidden" behind a flag:
+#controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio flags 1 irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
+
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2
+
#
# Options for `fd':
#
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