From: pjlahaie@uuisis.isis.org (Paul Lahaie) Subject: Help needed with floppy driver Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 23:23:44 GMT
I have just installed the new 0.96a bootimage, and I'm unable to use the
floppy disk. Whenever I access /dev/PS0 (the same /dev/PS0 as on 0.12) I
get a Reset-floppy called (multiple times) and an error message about block
7 (it's ALWAYS block 7, no matter if I cp Image /dev/PS0, or mkfs /dev/PS0
1200). This has gotten to the point that making a new bootimage is nearly
impossible, as I must upload the compressed binary to another system, reboot
into DOS, and download it to go thru rawrite.exe. Oddly enough, the
0.95 bootimage (which used to work) doesn't work anymore. Neither does the
0.12 bootimage. Since the floppies haven't had any problems under DOS, it
intrigues me that it no longer works!
On another note, I wanted to recompile the 0.96a sources to remove SCSI
support, since I only have the GCC 1.4 compiler, I modified the Makefilke
according to the instructions. After doing make a few times (it would die
every once in awhile), I got myself a boot image (I stripped the scsi.a line
and removed all references to scsi_dev_init). After going thru the
upload/download process, I rebooted from the new bootimag,e and got a kernel
panic. Any ideas? Also, is there any documentation for Taylor UUCP?
- Paul