Re: No more floppy drive

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:24:24PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>
>>>On a kernel compiled without "device fdc" and booted verbosely,
>>>"kldload fdc" results in the following:
>>>
>>>: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
>>
>>>What stuff would you like me to pepper, given the additional
>>>information above?
>>
>>Please send output of devinfo -r to see who is holding something 
>>overlapping 0x3f0-0x3f5.
>>
> 
> Nothing overlapped (I verified with "devinfo -u"), but your mail
> made me think.  I keep my /boot/device.hints on this notebook
> identical to GENERIC.hints.  After commenting out "fdc" lines
> in /boot/device.hints:
> 
> $ diff -u /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints
> --- /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints        Sat Apr  3 13:59:14 2004
> +++ /boot/device.hints  Thu Aug 26 00:32:55 2004
> _at__at_ -1,8 +1,8 _at__at_
>  # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints,v 1.13 2004/04/01 21:48:31 alfred Exp $
> -hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> -hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> -hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> -hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
> +#hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> +#hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> +#hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> +#hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
>  hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
>  hint.fd.0.drive="0"
>  hint.fd.1.at="fdc0"

Try commenting out the fd hints also.

> I got this:
> 
> $ dmesg |grep fdc
> fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 73
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0

Good to see this is working.

-- 
Nate