From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Aug 13 18:27:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F54214E7C for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02467; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908140118.SAA02467@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nick Hibma Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Dirk-Willem van Gulik Subject: Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:22:16 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:18:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Just tried it on a Sony Vaio with a USB floppy. fd0c probe fails because > of the following error: > > direction bit not set > > Somehow it finds something, but is not able to use it. > > Any pointers on how I could fix/avoid/quirk this? You're not getting it. You don't need the floppy driver at that point; both floppies have been read already. The floppy hardware it's seeing is probably in the super-I/O chip, and it's probably disabled in some fashion. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message