From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 13:12:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3C116A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.llorien.org (mail.llorien.org [212.88.225.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED6743D2F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:12:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h@llorien.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.llorien.org ident=mail) by mail.llorien.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1BivB5-0001Cv-LQ for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:12:38 +0200 Received: from [213.118.64.6] (helo=d5764006.kabel.telenet.be) by mail.llorien.org with asmtp (SSL 3.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1BivB5-0001Cs-A9 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:12:35 +0200 From: h To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:13:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407091513.48539.h@llorien.org> X-Spam-Score: 2.6 Subject: i need my floppy disk drive. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:12:40 -0000 i'm using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 but have been told to post to the current mailing list about this issue. several of us from freenode #freebsd have been pulling our hair off trying to get our floppy disk drive to work. at some point jer told he's had the flaw with his machines for over a year since the early 5.1. basically i can't mount my floppy drive. with ACPI on my kernel couldn't even detect the floppy controller. ever since i removed acpi now my kernel sees the controller: # dmesg|grep fd fdc0: at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold but the fd0 or fdc0 isn't in /dev, there's only a fd/ dir: ls /dev/f* 0 1 2 so the floppy disk drive is still invisible. i recently replaced my drive with a drive and its cable known to work on another machine. i have offline machines with no burner for which i need the floppy disk to communicate with. if 4- can do it why wouldn't 5- ?