From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Floppy on some UltraAX/UltraAXi boxes
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:41:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ultrasparc-90602615026064@msgid-missing> (raw)
Hi!
Just to let you know, on some UltraAX/AXi boxes the single floppy drive you
have is unit 1 and not 0 (B: and not A: in DOS terms). To get that working,
you have to use recent kernel (e.g. from CVS), plus it will be accessible
through /dev/fd1 and not /dev/fd0 as you might expect.
If you have a recent kernel, the boot messages will tell you correctly
Floppy drive(s): fd1 is 1.44M
So if that is your case (if your floppy does not work and prtconf -pv shows
you something like:
....
Node 0x????????
manual:
unit: 00000001
address: ????????.????????.????????
device_type: 'block'
interrupts: ????????
reg: ????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????
name: 'fdthree'
....
(the unit: 1 is important), then upgrade your kernel.
I'll be making kernel RPMS really soon, once some bug is fixed.
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.121 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
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next reply other threads:[~1998-09-17 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-17 9:41 Jakub Jelinek [this message]
1998-10-26 20:44 ` Floppy on some UltraAX/UltraAXi boxes Ward Deng
1998-10-26 21:26 ` Jakub Jelinek
1998-10-27 23:57 ` Ward Deng
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