Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:28:26 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: David Short <dshort@raider.crsc.k12.ar.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 815 + Floppy Message-ID: <20040125222826.7df613cf.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401252139260.25707@raider.crsc.k12.ar.us> References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401252139260.25707@raider.crsc.k12.ar.us>
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:45:59 -0600 (CST) David Short <dshort@raider.crsc.k12.ar.us> wrote: > One of my machines has a motherboard with and Intel 815 chipset. > Well, after installing the 5.x series (5.1, 5.2), you cannot mount a > floppy. It gives you Input/Output errors. However, in the 4.x series > (4.8, 4.9), I don't seem to have this problem. Is there any way to > make this work in the 5.x series? Or better yet... will this be fixed > before 5.x becomes "STABLE"? Disclaimer: the following is a wild guess; I don't run 5.x. Do you have ACPI enabled? If so, try disabling it. On my 4.9 system, if I have APM enabled, I can't use the floppy drive. IIRC ACPI is what 5.x has instead of APM, and it might have the same issues. Or not. I really don't know. As I said, wild guess. -Chris
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