cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fdc fdc_isa.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200409200612.i8K6CJ12009866 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Warner Losh write
s:

>  It accesed FDSTS and FDDATA incorrectly via the second resource (which
>  wound up accessing FDOUT and the tape register at 0x3f3) and badly for
>  the CTL register (at location 0x3f4).  This is a minimal fix that just
>  'eats' the first one if it covers two locations and has an offset of
>  0.  This confusion lead the floppy driver to think there'd been a disk
>  change, which uncovered a deadlock in the floppy/geom code which lead
>  to a panic.

The "deadlock" is only there if the disk-change line goes from
active to inactive when it shouldn't.  To reset this pin it is necessary
to execute a step to the controller. 

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