#38 Frequent floppy reset

[Salvo Isaja]

tir, 21,.03.2006 kl. 05.04 +0800, skrev Hanzac Chen:
> Hi,
>
> BTW, I found the floppy driver is very slow when
reading, in the Bochs emulator:
> 00233139641i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
> 00233148727i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
> 00258981480i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
> [FLOPPY] is_fat: FAT boot sector reports H1440 format
> 00273844294i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
> 00323864194i[FDD ] controller reset in software
> 00323864665i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
> 00388158116i[FDD ] controller reset in software
> 00388158637i[FDD ] io_write: config control
register: 0x00
>[...]
>It becomes this way around the time that the new block
interface was used.

I haven't noticed any slowdown on real hardware. Is
these resets
frequent? Of course, Salvo understands this better than
me (and I have
never even used Bochs).