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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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