Subject: Re: changes from apr 15 to apr 23
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/29/1996 14:04:24
On Mon, 29 Apr 96 14:32:29 +0200 
 Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl> wrote:

> Turns out we had a border-line polling loop in fdattach() that ran out of ste
am
> too early. Since delay(n) used to take almost 2*n microseconds before returni
ng,
> the fdc was polled just long enough on some (but evidently, not all) machines
.
> Anyway, I changed fdattach() to wait up to 10 seconds for the chip when
> probing for drives.

Cool PK! I'll try it out tonight.

Neil


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