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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:58:36 -0500
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with fdc0 w/Athlon and via chipset.  Floppy isn't recognized.
Message-ID:  <20040823065836.4ows4o8ck8o8k0cw@mail.encontacto.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040822194550.L94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20040822062942.jdgc48ksoo8c8kk0@mail.encontacto.net> <20040822194550.L94593@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Quoting Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>:

> 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'm not surprised. :)  They're cheap and seem to work ok in every
other way so there are probably more out there than a person
might think.

> I think Nate was working on a hack to glue
> the ranges together to work around this.

Is there anything I can do on this end.  (Change configuration,
test patches, etc?)

Thanks, Doug, for confirming my suspicions.

ed
>
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