Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 09:41:53 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Cynical Nihilist <cynical.nihilist@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD /dev/fd0 Message-ID: <20081207094103.D5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <493B7C14.3000408@gmail.com> References: <493B7C14.3000408@gmail.com>
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> 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. is parallel floppy supported by FreeBSD? i don't think so. what you see in dmesg is standard builtin floppy controller, often present on chipset.
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