Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:15:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Kalten <kalten@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> Subject: Re: floppy disk: /dev/fd/0 doesn't function :( Message-ID: <3EAECF38.CD0CCF9A@mindspring.com> References: <20030429081055.GB26101@freeHugin.Walhalla.Leben> <51830.1051629009@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030429154644.GB68707@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Kalten wrote: > > >>floppy disk: /dev/fd/0 doesn't function :( > > > /dev/fd0 is your floppy disk. > > > /dev/fd/0 is the current process standard input. > > thank you -- I got confused a little bit. > > > > but still there is the problem of no fd0 > > as jeff@walters.name wrote, it works again when disabling acpi at boot-time: > > in "/boot/loader.conf" > > ?hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"? > > > > I think, this is no feature, but a little bug. :( > > It is a bug in your BIOS. Complain to your motherboard manufacturer. The pcic routing hack might fix it, too. Also, there may be ACPI diagnostic messages that would explain the problem well enough to let him patch the ASL, and he's just not telling us about them. 8-|. -- Terry
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