Floppy drive on Intel m/b

[Rashid N. Achilov]

I had have catched by very strange and frustrating bug, which appeared only 
(at least by me) on Intel motherboards - D945GNT, DQ965GF.

When I try to load GENERIC kernel, system stops sometime after detecting all 
HDD's, when probed FDD. When I try to load customized kernel, system stops 
here - it infinitely doing "FDD status" from SECOND FDD, which for ages 
switched off. I think some "more stupid" BIOS simply reported "no second 
FDD", but Intel hadn't these in their BIOS and kernel INFINITELY does request 
FDD status and boot stops here!

I think, when doing probe (at least FDD's), unavailability status info sholud 
be equal "no device"

That was a very simply solution:

echo "hint.fd.1.disabled=\"1\"" >> /boot/device.hints

But I think, here is invalid policy - boot MUST NOT stopped, even status info 
about some devices unavailable.
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