Floppy drive not detected after 8.0-RELEASE->8.1-PRERELEASE

[Scott Allendorf]

Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 28/05/2010 19:32 Scott Allendorf said the following:
>> I recently upgraded to 8.1-PRERELEASE (amd64) on a Dell Optiplex 960
>> running 8.0-RELEASE.  After the upgrade, my floppy drive was no longer
>> detected.  After a binary search, the following commit appears to be
>> responsible:
>>
>>    http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=203544
> 
> 
> Can you check if reverting of MFC of the following helps (it's a part of that big
> ACPI MFC)?
> 
> r200554 | jkim | 2009-12-15 00:28:32 +0200 (Tue, 15 Dec 2009) | 3 lines
> Remove _FDE quirk handling as these quirks are automatically repaired
> by ACPICA layer since ACPICA 20091214.
> 
> 

Thank you for your quick reply to my message.

Reverting this change (src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc_acpi.c from 1.13.2.2 to 
1.13.2.1) appears to have fixed the issue.  The floppy drive is now 
detected and it is functional.  There do not appear to be any side effects.

Cheers,

Scott

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