Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jim Bloom wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD mailing list wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch does indeed fix the writing of floppies. However, fdformat(1)
> > > still fails as follows:
> >
> > That is very strange. My patch only applies to formatting floppies. It
> > did not touch any routine used in writing a floppy. I have no idea at
> > this time what is causing your other problems.
> >
> > I am unable to write to a floppy at this time. I'm not seeing any
> > errors, but nothings is getting written.
>
> Reading of floppies is broken too. The wrong flags are passed to
> isa_dmastart(), so the DMA direction is wrong. It defaults to the most
> dangerous direction (ISADMA_WRITE), of course.
I've confirmed that writing floppies seemingly works just fine, although
I can't read at all. I've written a number of floppy boot images and
checked them out, as well as performed a newfs_msdos and verified it on
DOS machines.
Cheers,
-scott
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