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Hi,

    I am having issues configuring and using my external floppy drive on 
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. It's a parallel port floppy drive. /dev/fd0 is not 
present and dmesg shows
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 
on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]

when using dmesg | grep fd

parallel port is working properly and I can read/write from it.

Thank you