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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:48, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> > >It's definetely a regression from 4.11-STABLE that runs fine on this 
> > >system with ACPI fully enabled 
> 
> Hmm, I was wrong about 4.11 using ACPI - it does not use it here really,
> it uses "good old" APM.
> 
> > It would be interesting to know how 4.x probes the hardware vs. how it 
> > apperas in the 6.x dmesg.
> 
> 4.11-STABLE:
> 
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> 
> 6.2-PRERELEASE:
> 
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0

You have a screwed up BIOS.  Listing 0x3f0 twice is what is probably breaking
your system.  You can probably patch your ASL and build a custom DSDT to get
your floppy drive working.  Check the manpages and the acpi@ list for more
info on doing that.

-- 
John Baldwin