Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:47:32 -0600 From: "Lord Sith" <lordsith49@hotmail.com> To: mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx Cc: paralyz3@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <Law11-F33z0PuTZgX1w00007d63@hotmail.com>
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I've seen several people post the same problem in the -CURRENT mailing list. No one has responded to them. Looking at the "open issues" on the FreeBSD 5.1 ToDo page, I would say that ACPI is pretty much untested and very immature in FreeBSD. >From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> >To: Lord Sith <lordsith49@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, paralyz3@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0 >Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:11:48 -0500 (CDT) > >On Thu, 8 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > 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? > > > >ok, I added the line: > > hint.acpi.0.disable="1" > >to the file: /boot/device.hints > >and, at last, I have my floppy drive working. > >Why is this happening? > _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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