fd0 device errors

[Hasse]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 03.44, Thanjee Neefam wrote:
> I have no floppy device in /dev
>
> I think the following is the reason why, but I have no clue how to fix
> it:
>
> ~$ dmesg |grep fd
> fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
> fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
> fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
>
> I am running 5.1, although it has always been broken since a clean
> install of 5.0R. I just need it now....
>
> It is not a hardware problem as it is working perfectly on 4.8 on another
> slice.
>
> Thanks

I added the following to /boot/device.hints  :
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
and that solved the problem for me.

Regards
Hasse.