Subject: Re: ATARITT
To: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zippo.unna.ping.de>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 09/10/1999 22:39:05
On Fri 10 Sep 1999, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:
> > I'm looking forward to those ACSI diffs ;-) Seriously, you know that the
> > ACSI driver has not yet been written, right?
>
> I know. And that makes it more dificult, because I don't have any testing
> device (like a harddisk) that I can use to test/debug ACSI. All I have is
> this mostly undocumented Ethernet adapter. And it's been years since I last
> did some work on my low-level tapedriver...
My ahdi-disk & controller got fried by means of a problem in the power
supply :-( The only thing I probably still have is the cable... If you want
me go searching, just say so ;-)
In another message you wrote:
> > > You did try '/dev/fd0c' and not '/dev/fd0b'?
> >
> > Yes, I did. And all I get is "recalibration error".
> I am right now looking at the code, and see:
> The code does not handle 2 drives gracefully (only if both contain the same
> disktype).
You are hitting another piece of unexplored kernel code ;-) I only have one
floppydrive...
Leo.