6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:37:50PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:27, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > : I did the USB/Firewire thing just to make sure one wasn't  the direct
> > : cause.
> >
> > Maybe we have yet another issue with resources...
> 
> I thing I have noticed is that when the floppy attach fails there is another 
> attempt a short time later.
> 
> Not sure if it's related though.
> 
> Anyone know of any debugging that could be tried to shed more light on the 
> problem?

I've built a kernel without "device fdc" on amd64 at least since 5.4 IIRC. I
had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive. 

Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive holds
a lot more data anyway.

Roland
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