i need my floppy disk drive.
h
h at llorien.org
Fri Jul 9 06:12:40 PDT 2004
i'm using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 but have been told to post to the current mailing
list about this issue.
several of us from freenode #freebsd have been pulling our hair off trying to
get our floppy disk drive to work. at some point jer told he's had the flaw
with his machines for over a year since the early 5.1.
basically i can't mount my floppy drive. with ACPI on my kernel couldn't even
detect the floppy controller. ever since i removed acpi now my kernel sees
the controller:
# dmesg|grep fd
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
but the fd0 or fdc0 isn't in /dev, there's only a fd/ dir:
ls /dev/f*
0 1 2
so the floppy disk drive is still invisible. i recently replaced my drive with
a drive and its cable known to work on another machine.
i have offline machines with no burner for which i need the floppy disk to
communicate with. if 4- can do it why wouldn't 5- ?
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