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from: Ed Durrant
date: 2004-12-12 20:45:54
subject: Re: floppy drive problem

Agreed, that looks fine.

Joe Farruggio wrote:

> rmview /irq yields
> "RMVIEW: Physical view
>    IRQ Level =  0  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    TIMER_CH_0
>    IRQ Level =  1  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    KBD_0 Keyboard
> Controller
>    IRQ Level =  2  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    PIC_1
>    IRQ Level =  6  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = MULTIPLEXED  FLOPPY_0 Floppy
> Controller
>    IRQ Level =  8  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    RTC
>    IRQ Level = 10  PCI Pin = D     Flg = SHARED       UHCI Compliant USB
> Host Con
> troller
>    IRQ Level = 10  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = SHARED       AICU160_0 Adaptec
> Ultra160
> Family SCSI Adapter
>    IRQ Level = 11  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = SHARED       AICU160_1 Adaptec
> Ultra160
> Family SCSI Adapter
>    IRQ Level = 12  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    AUX_0 PS/2
> Auxiliary Device
>   Controller
>    IRQ Level = 14  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    IDE_0 (E)IDE
> Controller
>    IRQ Level = 15  PCI Pin = NONE  Flg = EXCLUSIVE    IDE_1 (E)IDE
> Controller"
>
> while rmview /dma yields
> "RMVIEW: Physical view
>    DMA Channel =  2  Flg =  MULTIPLEXED FLOPPY_0 Floppy Controller
>    DMA Channel =  4  Flg =  EXCLUSIVE   DMA_CTLR_1"
>
> so it seems there is no conflict here
>
> Ed Durrant wrote:
> >
> >
> > Joe Farruggio wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The problem only occurs when i boot to my eCS system. When i boot to win
> >>xp or to eCs Maintenance systems, the floppy works ok. So i tried
> >>replacing ibm1flpy.add and ibm1flpy.SNP with the ones i had in my eCS
> >>Maintenance system and that did not work (same problem with the floppy
> >>disk). Does anyone have a clue as to what i should do next?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Check for an Irq or DMA conflict.
> >
> > RMVIEW /IRQ
> >
> > RMVIEW /DMA
> >
> > Floppy needs IRQ 6 and DMA 2 - if anything else in the system
hardware is using
> > either of these, change that device's configuration or disable/remove that
> > device.
> >
> > Cheers/2
> >
> > ed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
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