Floppy disk drive no longer detected

[Nate Lawson]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:20:35PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Ok, below is a patch to address this.  There are two things this fixes.  
>>The first, which I think Marcel's laptop had from the dmesg I saw, is that 
>>_FDI is not required so a system may have child devices of FDC that lack an 
>>_FDI method.
> 
> Yup. That seems to be resolved:
> 
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> 
> However, no fd0. Hence no /dev/fd0. With FDC_DEBUG I get:
> 	:
> [0x3->FDDATA][0xdf->FDDATA][0x2->FDDATA][0x10->FDDATA][FDDATA->0x90]
> 	:
> [fdc0 IDLE]
> 	:
> 
> And that's it...

That's weird.  Is your floppy drive plugged in?  But you're saying that 
the fd0 enumeration is fixed (i.e. devinfo shows fd0 present)?

Perhaps the drive type is not being probed correctly?

-- 
Nate