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5.3.3: BROKEN_FLOPPY_DRIVER

Tell ftape to ignore the bad behaviour of the floppy disk driver. If you don't want to use the patch contained in [/usr/src/ftape-4.05/]patches/v2.0/floppy.c.dif, then you should leave this option enabled. If you have applied the patch, than please edit [/usr/src/ftape-4.05/]MCONFIG and remove the variable -DBROKEN_FLOPPY_DRIVER. See v2.x.x.

At the time I'm writing this the latest version of the v2.1.x series of the kernel is 2.1.115 which still suffers from certain bugs in the floppy driver. You don't need the -DBROKEN_FLOPPY_DRIVER directive for Linux v2.1.115 but should apply the patch anyway.


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