Re: No more floppy drive

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:09:08PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 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.
> 
Tried that before writing.  fdc0 is OK, but no /dev/fd0 then.  ;)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
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