On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:38:57 -0700 
 Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM (Alan Perry) wrote:

> Problem 2.
> The system does not configure (and thus does not handle) the floppy drive.
> During boot, I get a message saying that the floppy (SUNW,fwtwo or whatever
> it is called) was not configured.  I looked through the configuration and
> noted that the floppy controller could only be configured on "mainbus".
> I do not know what mainbus is, but the OBP and my slavio docs say that the
> fdc is on obio, so I modified things so that it would match when the OBP
> returned that the floppy is on obio.  Now, when I try to use the floppy, I
> get a watchdog reset.  Even worse, when I look at the code, it does not seem
> to muck with the appropriate fdc registers in a way that is consistent with
> what the slavio manual says.
> 
> Any ideas?

I suspect that is one of those things that is being worked on. Remember
there is no official release of NetBSD/sparc sun4m and as such
many things are being worked upon. But if you want to help the gods will
answer your prayers. I certainly have been patient and have had many things
fixed by helping the developers out!


Regards,
Neil
--  
Neil J. McRae.                   
NetBSD/sparc worshipper. 
The NetBSD/sparc Gods: pk, abrown, mrg, thorpej, chuck, peter and more
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