Subject: Re: Floppy hang on boot; workaround
To: None <rhealey@aggregate.com, amiga-dev@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Michael L. Hitch <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 06/06/1994 19:58:02
On Jun  6,  8:50pm, rhealey@aggregate.com wrote:
> 
> 	For those with floppy drives that are experiencing a hang on
> 	boot of a recent -current kernel try the following:

  Or you can apply the followin fix:

*** /mnt/src/sys/arch/amiga/dev/fd.c	Sun Jun  5 10:15:11 1994
--- /opt/sys/arch/amiga/dev/fd.c	Mon Jun  6 19:33:40 1994
***************
*** 1001,1007 ****
  		/*
  		 * figure direction
  		 */
! 		if (nstep > 0) {
  			sdir = FDSTEPIN;
  			FDSETDIR(1);
  		} else {
--- 1001,1007 ----
  		/*
  		 * figure direction
  		 */
! 		if (nstep > 0 && ncyl != 0) {
  			sdir = FDSTEPIN;
  			FDSETDIR(1);
  		} else {

Michael

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