Hacking the BIOS to get my floppy back?

[Matt Dawson]

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Hi all,
	Any pointers would be welcome. I have a box running 5.2.1RC in the workshop 
which has the old AMI ACPI and floppy problem. If I boot with ACPI disabled I 
get floppy drive. If I boot with ACPI enabled I get no floppy and the usual 
fdc0: command failed at out byte 1 of 3 message in dmesg.

I know this is a BIOS problem and have emailed ASRock, who directed my to the 
Linux section of ViaArena. Idiots. I have sent them a lovely little missive 
explaining the difference and the problem again, but I fear it will be too 
much for them. I guess they just throw the BIOS together with the AMI tool, 
adding stock modules and really know not what goes on... ;o)

My question is this: How does one go about hacking the ACPI in the BIOS? Is 
there a way to do it? It seems a stupid thing for such a trivial problem, 
assigning six ports to an ISA device, but any suggestions would be welcome. 
Booting without ACPI or APIC is not an option. I have too many devices 
installed in that machine for the resources available without ACPI.

Chances of me buying anything with an AMI BIOS again? Slim!
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Matt Dawson.

matt at mattsnetwork.co.uk
matt at shihtzucentral.co.uk
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