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fbsd_user wrote:

> This boot error message general means that your floppy drive is
> broken.

Not necessarily, this can also be a FreeBSD bug. I have several boards 
where this error occurs when ACPI is enabled. It's not a hardware 
problem. The floppy drives work with other systems, but not with 
FreeBSD+ACPI (4.9 - 5.1).

cu,
Uwe