Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > Hi Wilko,
> > 
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > > At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a
> > > long time
> > 
> > Hm... Ok - EV56 here.. Maybe I should manage to find my old backups
> > made with the 4 system. Back to 2001 I remember that I was able to boot
> > from floppy (I was playing around with a non-bootable scsi controller and
> > booting from flopy+changing rootdev then) on an other AlphaPC 164LX.
> 
> Booting floopy and changin rootdev doesn't require floppy support in
> kernel.
> But it's still interesting - I have no floppy either :(
> I thought the tsunami issue was non working floppy and not non
> existing?

Non working, last time I tried:

fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold^M
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0^M

on

FreeBSD 4.9-RC #3: Thu Oct 16 09:25:37 CEST 2003^M
    root at ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DS10^M


Furtheron:

fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
0x3f7,0x3f
0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M

on

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 01:42:39 GMT 2003^M
    root at mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC^M


I have not tried to use it then, but it was detected .

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