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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Lord Sith <lordsith49@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Lord Sith wrote:

> What does dmesg say about your floppy drive? Does it detect it? Are there
> errors trying to probe it?
>
> I have this annoying problem on my FreeBSD test box (ABIT BH6 motherboard)
> where if I enable the ACPI module my floppy drive became unusable.

I have problems reading my floppy too (Intel 815/850 motherboard), but I
have not related it with ACPI.  How do you disable this module?


>
> >From: "Aleksandar Antok" <paralyz3@hotmail.com>
> >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0
> >Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 20:52:21 +0000
> >
> >Hello everybody,
> >
> >How can I get floppy drive work under FreeBSD 5.0. I have read in the
> >handbook that I should use MAKEDEV, but I can't find it anywhere. In the /
> >dev directory I have "fd" directory(and the files "0", "1", "2"). I cannot
> >mount that(/dev/fd/0). Please help me or send me MAKEDEV.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Alexander aka Captain Pirate.
>
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