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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:09:35 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with fdc0 device
Message-ID:  <20030408180935.GB9968@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0304081721380.8204-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.44.0304081721380.8204-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>

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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:31:21PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> XP1000G, FreeBSD-5.0 here.
> I am not able to mount the floppy.
> in the kernel
> 
> device          fdc
> device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives

Alphas don't use ATAPI floppys so you can remove that one.

> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
> 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
> 
> but I Cannot find any devices named /dev/fd0
> 
> I don't know what to do else I Read all the FAQ I Could find and all the
> google references I could find without succes.
> 
> I need fd0 to work, I use it to sign certificates and to
> bring certificates from the CA machine to my computer to send them to
> users.

On my Tsunami-chipset based box (a DS10) I never got the floppy to work
correctly with FreeBSD. Not a hardware problem, something in FreeBSD. I
would not be surprised the XP1000 has the same problem.

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|   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				



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