Floppy disk drive no longer detected

[Tim Robbins]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:13:26PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> My floppy disk drive is no longer probed correctly by -CURRENT. I get the
> following message, but none about fd0 (and /dev/fd0 does not exist):
> 
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> 
> Previously it probed as:
> 
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> 
> The ACPI DSDT for this system is available at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/k8v.txt.bz2

Ok, it looks like the FDC device should have a child device for each drive,
but my system's DSDT has none. Could we work around this in the driver by
not using _FDE/_FDI to probe unless the FDC device has at least 1 child with
an _FDI object, or should we add an entry to the quirks table for this
particular BIOS instead?


Tim