FreeBSD 5.0 Cannot Mount Floppy

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, A. Nony MOUSE wrote:

> The floppy mounts fine under 4.8.
>
> The floppy mounts fine if I plug an OpenBSD drive onto the system.
>
> The motherboard is NOT Intel, it's an MSI.
>
> I tried the 'hint.acpi.0.disable="1"' (whatever that means) addition to
> "hints" to no avail.


it is intended to disable [not loading] the ACPI module.
you must add this line:

		hint.acpi.0.disable="1"

to your file:  /boot/device.hints and reboot your computer.

>
> The system is simply not seeing the floppy.
>

what do you mean "not seeing" what dmesg say?   [dmesg | grep fdc]



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