From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 08:11:56 -0400
From: Pace Willisson pace@blitz.com
Subject: b.com floppy driver patch for fast machines
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My shiny new 133 mhz pentium was getting "premature EOF" errors when
trying to boot from a floppy.  This patch to floppysend() fixes it up:

*** sys/src/boot/pc/floppy.c-	Tue Aug 29 15:48:28 1995
--- sys/src/boot/pc/floppy.c	Tue Aug 29 15:48:46 1995
***************
*** 367,373 ****
  	int tries;
  	uchar c;
  
! 	for(tries = 0; tries < 100; tries++){
  		/*
  		 *  see if its ready for data
  		 */
--- 367,373 ----
  	int tries;
  	uchar c;
  
! 	for(tries = 0; tries < 1000; tries++){
  		/*
  		 *  see if its ready for data
  		 */

I'm a little surprised that this was all I needed to do.  On older
machines, the inb in the loop would have run at the 8mhz ISA bus speed
and would have completely dominated the processor time.  Perhaps i/o
to this motherboard's built in floppy controller runs much faster.  In
that case, a better fix might be to do a dummy i/o cycle to a real ISA
port, or use a calibrated delay, like clock.c:delay, but scaled for,
perhaps, 10 microseconds per shot.

Pace Willisson
pace@blitz.com