Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:31:12 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dwhite@gumbysoft.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with fdc0 w/Athlon and via chipset. Floppy isn't recognized. Message-ID: <20040822.213112.116247523.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040822194550.L94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040822062942.jdgc48ksoo8c8kk0@mail.encontacto.net> <20040822194550.L94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> writes:
: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Edwin Culp wrote:
:
: > I've been seeing this problem for some time. I've seen other
: > folks comment about it also. I'm wondering if it is operator
: > error or if there really is a problem.
: >
: > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port
: > 0x3f7,0x3f4-0x3f5,0x3f2-0x3f3 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
: > fdc0: I/O to control range incorrect
: > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
: >
: > I see this on all my athlon/via machines. I'm running current as
: > yesterday.
:
: Your BIOS writer is on crack. I think Nate was working on a hack to glue
: the ranges together to work around this.
Actually, Nate's hack doesn't glue things together like this. I have
a preliminary patch ready for this problem before phk committed the
rewrite of fdc, which I need to merge into the current fdc.
Warner
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