Re: Problems with fdc0 w/Athlon and via chipset. Floppy isn't recognized.

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:31:12 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <20040822194550.L94593_at_carver.gumbysoft.com>
            Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> writes:
: On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Edwin Culp wrote:
: 
: > I've been seeing this problem for some time.  I've seen other
: > folks comment about it also.  I'm wondering if it is operator
: > error or if there really is a problem.
: >
: > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port
: > 0x3f7,0x3f4-0x3f5,0x3f2-0x3f3 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
: > fdc0: I/O to control range incorrect
: > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
: >
: > I see this on all my athlon/via machines.  I'm running current as
: > yesterday.
: 
: Your BIOS writer is on crack. I think Nate was working on a hack to glue
: the ranges together to work around this.

Actually, Nate's hack doesn't glue things together like this.  I have
a preliminary patch ready for this problem before phk committed the
rewrite of fdc, which I need to merge into the current fdc.

Warner
Received on Mon Aug 23 2004 - 01:31:08 UTC

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