Re: FDC motor left on

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
 > In linux-2.4.22 and earlier, if there is no FDC driver installed,
 > the FDC motor may continue to run after boot if the motor was
 > started as part of the BIOS boot sequence.
 > This patch turns OFF the motor once Linux gets control.
 > 
 > 
 > --- linux-2.4.22/arch/i386/boot/setup.S.orig	Fri Aug  2 20:39:42 2002
 > +++ linux-2.4.22/arch/i386/boot/setup.S	Fri Oct  3 11:50:43 2003
 > @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@

Does this mean the 'kill_motor' function in bootsect.S isn't doing
what it should be? If so, maybe that needs fixing instead of turning
it off in two places ?

		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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