Floppy disk drive no longer detected

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:59:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> With the patch I committed, the spurious fd4 device should not be 
> showing up (see your devinfo above).

Alas, still there:

	:
    fdc0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0700 _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.FDC_
        Interrupt request lines:
            0x6
        DMA request lines:
            2
        I/O ports:
            0x3f0-0x3f5
            0x3f7
      fd4
    unknown pnpinfo _HID=none _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.FDC_.FDD_
	:


> I looked more closely at your ASL 
> and it indicates that the floppy drive device depends on the dock.  It 
> appears if the dock is not present at boot, the _STA method of DOCK 
> disables the floppy drive (DKFS -> 0).  Can you tell me more about the 
> status of your docking station?

Docked and floppy enabled in the BIOS. Normally (that is, previously)
the floppy drive was probed even if not docked. Pretty much like the
parallel and serial ports. It's fine if the floppy drive is not probed
when not docked, but docking should then cause the floppy drive to
be added.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net