Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:13:48 +0200 From: h <h@llorien.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: i need my floppy disk drive. Message-ID: <200407091513.48539.h@llorien.org>
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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: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> 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- ?
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