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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FDC motor left on
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:58:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031003235801.GA5183@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0310031322430.499@chaos>

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
 > In linux-2.4.22 and earlier, if there is no FDC driver installed,
 > the FDC motor may continue to run after boot if the motor was
 > started as part of the BIOS boot sequence.
 > This patch turns OFF the motor once Linux gets control.
 > 
 > 
 > --- linux-2.4.22/arch/i386/boot/setup.S.orig	Fri Aug  2 20:39:42 2002
 > +++ linux-2.4.22/arch/i386/boot/setup.S	Fri Oct  3 11:50:43 2003
 > @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@

Does this mean the 'kill_motor' function in bootsect.S isn't doing
what it should be? If so, maybe that needs fixing instead of turning
it off in two places ?

		Dave

-- 
 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-03 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-03 17:25 FDC motor left on Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-03 23:58 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-10-06 12:42   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-06 12:50     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-10-06 12:59     ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-06 13:58       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-06 14:25         ` John Bradford
2003-10-06 15:09           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-06 15:49             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-10-06 16:17               ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-06 16:46                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-10-06 16:06             ` John Bradford
2003-10-06 16:22               ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-06 16:41                 ` John Bradford
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2003-10-04 13:56 Mikael Pettersson

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