No more floppy drive
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 25 15:23:51 PDT 2004
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:17:33PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <412D0E04.8040701 at root.org>
> Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
> : Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> :
> : > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:24:24PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> : >
> : >>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> : >>
> : >>>On a kernel compiled without "device fdc" and booted verbosely,
> : >>>"kldload fdc" results in the following:
> : >>>
> : >>>: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
> : >>
> : >>>What stuff would you like me to pepper, given the additional
> : >>>information above?
> : >>
> : >>Please send output of devinfo -r to see who is holding something
> : >>overlapping 0x3f0-0x3f5.
> : >>
> : >
> : > Nothing overlapped (I verified with "devinfo -u"), but your mail
> : > made me think. I keep my /boot/device.hints on this notebook
> : > identical to GENERIC.hints. After commenting out "fdc" lines
> : > in /boot/device.hints:
> : >
> : > $ diff -u /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints
> : > --- /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints Sat Apr 3 13:59:14 2004
> : > +++ /boot/device.hints Thu Aug 26 00:32:55 2004
> : > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> : > # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints,v 1.13 2004/04/01 21:48:31 alfred Exp $
> : > -hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> : > -hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> : > -hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> : > -hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
> : > +#hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> : > +#hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> : > +#hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> : > +#hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
> : > hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
> : > hint.fd.0.drive="0"
> : > hint.fd.1.at="fdc0"
> :
> : Try commenting out the fd hints also.
> :
> : > I got this:
> : >
> : > $ dmesg |grep fdc
> : > fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73
> : > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> : > fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73
> : > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> :
> : Good to see this is working.
>
> Generally one doesn't want ANY hints when one has pnpisabios or acpi
> supplying the hints, unless one really does have an exceptional device
> at that location.
>
A lot of current@ users report missing /dev/fd0 due to this. Can this
be fixed somehow?
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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