Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:59:29 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: njl@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy disk drive no longer detected Message-ID: <20040726095929.GA30092@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20040726021326.GA23697@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040726021326.GA23697@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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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? Tim
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