On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:47:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Hi, Nathan!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, Nathan Meyers
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) produced 5,1K in 116 lines:
>
> > Turns
> > out that the driver doesn't like to share interrupts, whereas normal behavior
> > for PCI devices is to all share a single interrupt.
>
> For interrupt-sharing both hardware and software have to
> support that feature, which is not a 'given' in either of them.
>
> > Feb 3 17:13:36 morse kernel: [059] 0 fdc-io.c (fdc_probe) - Type i82078-1 or
>5Volt i82078SL FDC found.
>
> We find something we think is the card ...
We're finding the FDC, so we've made it past the plastic into the Max
box...
>
> > Feb 3 17:14:08 morse kernel: [061] 0 ftape-ctl.c (ftape_activate_drive) - No
>tape drive found.
>
> ... but not the Max.
Yep... pretty weird. I can't use the port/drive combination from
NT because of NT's weird relationship with interrupts (NT doesn't
do interrupts on parallel ports, so doesn't allow me to change the
IRQ; the ditto backup s/w does use interrupts, but doesn't want to
share and doesn't offer me any way to change it. Ugh!).
But the drive is functional - it works fine from NT with the built-in
port.
Nathan
> Hmmm ...
>
> -Wolfgang
>
