Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:02:40 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Hacking the BIOS to get my floppy back? Message-ID: <200402031202.42129.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Any pointers would be welcome. I have a box running 5.2.1RC in the worksho= p=20 which has the old AMI ACPI and floppy problem. If I boot with ACPI disabled= I=20 get floppy drive. If I boot with ACPI enabled I get no floppy and the usual= =20 fdc0: command failed at out byte 1 of 3 message in dmesg. I know this is a BIOS problem and have emailed ASRock, who directed my to t= he=20 Linux section of ViaArena. Idiots. I have sent them a lovely little missive= =20 explaining the difference and the problem again, but I fear it will be too= =20 much for them. I guess they just throw the BIOS together with the AMI tool,= =20 adding stock modules and really know not what goes on... ;o) My question is this: How does one go about hacking the ACPI in the BIOS? Is= =20 there a way to do it? It seems a stupid thing for such a trivial problem,=20 assigning six ports to an ISA device, but any suggestions would be welcome.= =20 Booting without ACPI or APIC is not an option. I have too many devices=20 installed in that machine for the resources available without ACPI. Chances of me buying anything with an AMI BIOS again? Slim! =2D --=20 Matt Dawson. matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk matt@shihtzucentral.co.uk NIC Handle MD2657-RIPE OpenNIC Handle M_D9 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAH43gAmT9uY8euiIRAs0DAKCDarFVRz6dhrAmiL7/+JSNqewnBgCggTp2 UiVbOU+zfKHpl/mbEAv+cm0=3D =3DTEKr =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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