problems with fdc0 device

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:31:21PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi at fi.infn.it wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> XP1000G, FreeBSD-5.0 here.
> I am not able to mount the floppy.
> in the kernel
> 
> device          fdc
> device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives

Alphas don't use ATAPI floppys so you can remove that one.

> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
> 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
> 
> but I Cannot find any devices named /dev/fd0
> 
> I don't know what to do else I Read all the FAQ I Could find and all the
> google references I could find without succes.
> 
> I need fd0 to work, I use it to sign certificates and to
> bring certificates from the CA machine to my computer to send them to
> users.

On my Tsunami-chipset based box (a DS10) I never got the floppy to work
correctly with FreeBSD. Not a hardware problem, something in FreeBSD. I
would not be surprised the XP1000 has the same problem.

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