Subject: Re: fd0 not configured?
To: Stephen Champion <steve@herb.kuru.com>
From: Stephen Champion <steve@herb.kuru.com>
List: amiga
Date: 04/04/1995 23:28:15
Stephen Champion said:
>
> When I boot NetBSD, the following appears in the system diagnostics:
>
> fdc0 at mainbus0: dmabuf pa 0x1e58a8
> fd0 at fdc0: 3.5dd 80 cyl, 2 head, 11 sec [9 sec], 512 bytes/sec
> not configured
If anyone else happened to be interested, Michael Hitch already
answered this for me:
> Ah, that's your problem. Your machine has two floppies, but the
>kernel only has one. It's complaining that it there is another floppy
>present, but it's not being configured. Because it's not an autoconfig
>board, which has entries in a table in zbus.c to describe it, the message
>doesn't indicate what isn't being configured.
>
> Because fdc0 and fd0 are standard in the Amiga, it's defined in
>std.amiga. To add other floppies, you need to add config entries for
>them:
> fd1 at fdc0 unit 1
> fd2 at fdc0 unit 2
> fd3 at fdc0 unit 3
[ and in another message ]
>On Apr 4, 9:33pm, Stephen Champion wrote:
>> Still doesn't make sense that it reports fd0 not being configured.
> It's not reporting fd0 not being configured, it's reporting fd2 not
>being reported. It doesn't get the device name in the message because
>the error is reported by the common autoconfig code and it doesn't
>know anything about what it is that isn't configured.
Thanks Michael!
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