From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 00:10:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7696B16A4BF for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp6.hy.skanova.net (smtp6.hy.skanova.net [195.67.199.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E294243FE1 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@swedehost.com) Received: from smtp7.hy.skanova.net (smtp7.hy.skanova.net [195.67.199.140]) by smtp6.hy.skanova.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7M7AQ2r001532 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thor.swedehost.com (h129n2fls33o804.telia.com [217.209.211.129]) by smtp7.hy.skanova.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7M78NCM010578; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:08:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Hasse Hansson Organization: The Valhalla Project To: Kelly Brown , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:08:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030821165708.KJDK3983.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030821165708.KJDK3983.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308220908.24407.webmaster@swedehost.com> Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Not working in 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:10:34 -0000 On Thursday 21 August 2003 18.57, Kelly Brown wrote: > Hello All: > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.1 as a fresh install and there is > something weird going on with my floppy drive. > > The directory structure that was created looks like this... > /dev/df/0 > /dev/df/1 > /dev/df/2 > > This is what is showing up in dmesg... > fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 > fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range 6 ports > > However this is not /dev/fdc0 file. > > If I try to mount /dev/df/0 this is what I get... > mount /dev/fd/0 /floppy > mount: /dev/fd/0: Block device required > > I've done searches on the web and can see that other people have had > the same problem but I haven't seen a fix. Can anybody help me? > > Thanks! > -kbsquared > > Hi. I added the following to /boot/device.hints : hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" and that solved the problem for me. Regards Hasse. ____________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"