Subject: port-i386/1758: floppy drive motor is not turned off in i386 port on halt
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/12/1995 18:03:12
>Number: 1758
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: floppy drive motor is not turned off in i386 port on halt
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 12 18:20:01 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Perry E. Metzger
>Organization:
Perry Metzger perry@piermont.com
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>Release: 1.1Alpha
>Environment:
Recent i386 port machines, possibly older ones too
System: NetBSD jekyll.piermont.com 1.1_ALPHA NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA (JEKYLL) #29: Sun Nov 12 15:13:29 EST 1995 root@jekyll.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JEKYLL i386
>Description:
If you halt the machine while the floppy drive motor is still
on, it never turns off.
>How-To-Repeat:
do something to make the floppy motor spin (like reading from
the floppy drive) and then halt the machine immediately. You
may need a fast machine for the system to halt before the
floppy motor turns off.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: