nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse) (09/06/90)
My latest project is that I'm working on a new init program for the
Tandy 6000 under Xenix 3.02.00 to fix some deficiencies (like init dying
if you enable/disable ports too often) and add some features (like
initializing Hayes compatable modems after a call).
Anyway, I've got it doing pretty much what I had intended it to except
I've run into a weird problem. With my init running, the floppy drives will
not format, read, or write properly. With the original, they work fine.
No where in my software do I address the floppy drives. Doing a strings on
the original init doesn't turn up any references.
Does anyone know is there some undocumented system call, ioctl or
other, that initializes the floppies at boot for Xenix to work right? I'd
think this kind of thing would be in the init routine in the device driver
but then this is a Tandy machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this new weird problem is
the one road-block in the way of my system being able to do auto-baud on
answering the phone.
If responding via e-mail, please mail nanook@eskimo.uucp, I don't
have news running on my system so I post from rwing, but eskimo is in the
maps so mail should get to me there. Thanks!