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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 13:49:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To:        "A. Nony MOUSE" <qejecit@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Cannot Mount Floppy
Message-ID:  <20030514134219.I8819@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F131vSAMfKQu1b0001920d@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-F131vSAMfKQu1b0001920d@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, 14 May 2003, A. Nony MOUSE wrote:

> The floppy mounts fine under 4.8.
>
> The floppy mounts fine if I plug an OpenBSD drive onto the system.
>
> The motherboard is NOT Intel, it's an MSI.
>
> I tried the 'hint.acpi.0.disable="1"' (whatever that means) addition to
> "hints" to no avail.


it is intended to disable [not loading] the ACPI module.
you must add this line:

		hint.acpi.0.disable="1"

to your file:  /boot/device.hints and reboot your computer.

>
> The system is simply not seeing the floppy.
>

what do you mean "not seeing" what dmesg say?   [dmesg | grep fdc]



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