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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:56:18 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive
Message-ID:  <20070130175618.GB77892@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200701301638.22343.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20060306.155239.11596782.imp@bsdimp.com> <200701291659.28959.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070129.065748.110115339.imp@bsdimp.com> <200701301638.22343.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:37:50PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:27, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > : I did the USB/Firewire thing just to make sure one wasn't  the direct
> > : cause.
> >
> > Maybe we have yet another issue with resources...
>=20
> I thing I have noticed is that when the floppy attach fails there is anot=
her=20
> attempt a short time later.
>=20
> Not sure if it's related though.
>=20
> Anyone know of any debugging that could be tried to shed more light on th=
e=20
> problem?

I've built a kernel without "device fdc" on amd64 at least since 5.4 IIRC. I
had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive.=20

Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive holds
a lot more data anyway.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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