Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:23:45 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: nate@root.org Subject: Re: No more floppy drive Message-ID: <20040825222345.GB79209@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040825.161733.103236573.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <412D0388.9060201@root.org> <20040825214921.GA62984@ip.net.ua> <412D0E04.8040701@root.org> <20040825.161733.103236573.imp@bsdimp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:17:33PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <412D0E04.8040701@root.org> > Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes: > : Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > : > : > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:24:24PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > : > > : >>Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > : >> > : >>>On a kernel compiled without "device fdc" and booted verbosely, > : >>>"kldload fdc" results in the following: > : >>> > : >>>: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) > : >> > : >>>What stuff would you like me to pepper, given the additional > : >>>information above? > : >> > : >>Please send output of devinfo -r to see who is holding something > : >>overlapping 0x3f0-0x3f5. > : >> > : > > : > Nothing overlapped (I verified with "devinfo -u"), but your mail > : > made me think. I keep my /boot/device.hints on this notebook > : > identical to GENERIC.hints. After commenting out "fdc" lines > : > in /boot/device.hints: > : > > : > $ diff -u /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints > : > --- /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints Sat Apr 3 13:59:14 2004 > : > +++ /boot/device.hints Thu Aug 26 00:32:55 2004 > : > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ > : > # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints,v 1.13 2004/04/01 21:48:31 alfred Exp $ > : > -hint.fdc.0.at="isa" > : > -hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0" > : > -hint.fdc.0.irq="6" > : > -hint.fdc.0.drq="2" > : > +#hint.fdc.0.at="isa" > : > +#hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0" > : > +#hint.fdc.0.irq="6" > : > +#hint.fdc.0.drq="2" > : > hint.fd.0.at="fdc0" > : > hint.fd.0.drive="0" > : > hint.fd.1.at="fdc0" > : > : Try commenting out the fd hints also. > : > : > I got this: > : > > : > $ dmesg |grep fdc > : > fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73 > : > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 > : > fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73 > : > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > : > : Good to see this is working. > > Generally one doesn't want ANY hints when one has pnpisabios or acpi > supplying the hints, unless one really does have an exceptional device > at that location. > A lot of current@ users report missing /dev/fd0 due to this. Can this be fixed somehow? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLRFxqRfpzJluFF4RAlE0AKCRgHlQBgzpASU/6gtvGIPnY3oQfQCglpY3 CqUtk+AjsuT8UccysLqYfiE= =h2bE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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