Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1

[Riccardo Veraldi]

Floppy is not workign since 5.0 RELEASE
I had reported it but noone answered me.
so since for my work I need the floppy (to sign certificates into 
another machine)
I Switched to 4.8 RELEASE where floppy works.
Anyway I Report too that floppy is not working on 5.1
I have a XP1000

thanks

Rick

Wilko Bulte wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
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>>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
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>>>Hi Wilko,
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>>>Wilko Bulte wrote:
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>>>>At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a
>>>>long time
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>Non working, last time I tried:
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>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
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>on
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>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
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>Furtheron:
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>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
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>on
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>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
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>I have not tried to use it then, but it was detected .
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