Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:28:35 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Floppy disk drive no longer detected Message-ID: <20040727052835.GA714@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <4105BCAC.1000000@root.org> References: <20040726021326.GA23697@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040726095929.GA30092@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <4105BCAC.1000000@root.org>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:23:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > Tim Robbins wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:13:26PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > > >>My floppy disk drive is no longer probed correctly by -CURRENT. I get the > >>following message, but none about fd0 (and /dev/fd0 does not exist): > >> > >>fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 > >>on acpi0 > >> > >>Previously it probed as: > >> > >>fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port > >>0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > >>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > >>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > >> > >>The ACPI DSDT for this system is available at: > >>http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/k8v.txt.bz2 > > > > > >Ok, it looks like the FDC device should have a child device for each drive, > >but my system's DSDT has none. Could we work around this in the driver by > >not using _FDE/_FDI to probe unless the FDC device has at least 1 child > >with > >an _FDI object, or should we add an entry to the quirks table for this > >particular BIOS instead? > > Here's another version of the patch. It should fix _another_ problem I > found with Tim's BIOS, namely that it uses a package instead of a buffer > for _FDE. This works nicely, thanks! Tim
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