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SubjectRe: FDC motor left on
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> > This is not a problem to deal with in the kernel - what if there is
> > hardware other than a floppy controller at that address?
>
> In the ix86 architecture (and it is in arch-specific code), there
> cannot be anything at this address except a floppy or nothing.
> In both cases, you are covered.

Huh? The floppies use ordinary I/O ports at the ISA bus, not the range
reserved for motherboard devices as, until quite recently, FDCs used to
exist solely as add-on cards (I still have one). Any other ISA device is
free to use the port range if it's unused by anything else (e.g. no FDC
there). Ditto for IRQ6 -- older cards used to have an option to use this
line, only newer ones often do not have it anymore, for unknown reason
(i.e. the cost is probably one).

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