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I want to thankyou very much. Indeed this was the problem.. I have found out 
that both My VLB S3 video card and VLB I/O Controller are not on
talking terms when the bux speed is 40MHZ, however when the I/O card is by
it'self on the VLB buss, there are no probs at 40MHz..

So to get both working .. I simply dropped the bus speed from 40 to 33..
Now I have lost 7 MHz of really required power but at least everything 
is stable, and my floppy drives now work...

Thanks

Andrew

rachel@virago.org.au (Rachel Polanskis) writes:

>In article <5f6hls$pdf@news.usq.edu.au>,
>	maxwella@usq.edu.au (Andrew Maxwell) writes:
>> Hi there,
>> I have a problem that is really bugging me..Althought it is not
>> directly a Linux problem, it is stopping me from using parts of
>> Linux....
>> 
>> I have a VLB motherboard and everytime I put in a VLB videocard, it
>> stuffs up my VLB Floppy Drive Controller such that I cannot read/write
>> or do anything with floppies....Can anyone offer any assistance...
>> 
>> (I suspect that this Slot Mastering stuff is mucking me up)

>You need to be careful here.
>Some VLB boards don't follow specs properly and tell you they are capable
>of 33mhz when they are not.

>I had a similar problem to yours when I tried to increase the bus speed.

>I started getting kernel panics and the like whenever I accessed the
>floppy drive. When I reduced the bus speed back to normal the problem went
>away.

>Check you motherboard manual to see if you have the bus speed setup
>correctly.


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