Floppy drive not detected after 8.0-RELEASE->8.1-PRERELEASE
Scott Allendorf
scott-allendorf at uiowa.edu
Fri May 28 17:11:34 UTC 2010
I recently upgraded to 8.1-PRERELEASE (amd64) on a Dell Optiplex 960
running 8.0-RELEASE. After the upgrade, my floppy drive was no longer
detected. After a binary search, the following commit appears to be
responsible:
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=203544
uname -a output:
===========================================================================
FreeBSD scatest2.physics.uiowa.edu 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Thu
May 27 14:09:09 CDT 2010
sca at scatest2.physics.uiowa.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GELFAND amd64
===========================================================================
The floppy-related lines from a verbose boot before the commit:
===========================================================================
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
on acpi0
fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
fdc: fdc0 already exists; skipping it
===========================================================================
The floppy-related lines from a verbose boot after the commit:
===========================================================================
fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
on acpi0
fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80
fdc0: [FILTER]
fdc: fdc0 already exists; skipping it
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
===========================================================================
Has anyone else seen this or am I the only person that still needs
floppy drives to work? This is a test system, so I am able to test
potential fixes at will.
Thanks,
Scott
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