Re: stall after floppy drive recognition / shared irqs

[Philip Dodd]

> I know that IRQ 10 is being shared (by about 5 devices), but a fellow
> Hurd'r tells me that his laptop uses shared IRQs with no problems, so
> I'm not sure that that is the problem.

I can't comment on the rest, but though your friend *may* be right, try 
and eliminate the IRQ sharing thing (I know it's not easy with a Dell 
BIOS :) ) because my hurd behaved terribly badly when an IRQ was shared 
between the SCSI and NIC.

Good Luck

Philip