Re: 3.5" 1.44 MByte FDD support

[Dave Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk> writes:]

>fd is reporting that it's found the drive and setting up the namer entry.
>When I mount this at /dev I get my /dev/fd/fd0 entry, but as soon as I try
>to access the drive I get dropped into the kernel debugger.

This is most likely just the timer thread being terminated when the main
thread decides to cancel the timeout for the floppy. Take out the
dbg_enter() in os/kern/event.c for the case of un-handled events, and it'll
run much better.

Now that we have adb(1) and debugging support, I think I'll be removing this
for v1.3. It used to be very convenient for taking a look at why your user
programs were dying, but adb is a better way to look anyway.

BTW... I haven't tested the floppy driver in a LONG time. Expect some bit
decay.

                                                Andy
Received on Wed Apr 6 09:49:45 1994