-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Any pointers would be welcome. I have a box running 5.2.1RC in the workshop which has the old AMI ACPI and floppy problem. If I boot with ACPI disabled I get floppy drive. If I boot with ACPI enabled I get no floppy and the usual fdc0: command failed at out byte 1 of 3 message in dmesg. I know this is a BIOS problem and have emailed ASRock, who directed my to the Linux section of ViaArena. Idiots. I have sent them a lovely little missive explaining the difference and the problem again, but I fear it will be too much for them. I guess they just throw the BIOS together with the AMI tool, adding stock modules and really know not what goes on... ;o) My question is this: How does one go about hacking the ACPI in the BIOS? Is there a way to do it? It seems a stupid thing for such a trivial problem, assigning six ports to an ISA device, but any suggestions would be welcome. Booting without ACPI or APIC is not an option. I have too many devices installed in that machine for the resources available without ACPI. Chances of me buying anything with an AMI BIOS again? Slim! - -- Matt Dawson. matt_at_mattsnetwork.co.uk matt_at_shihtzucentral.co.uk NIC Handle MD2657-RIPE OpenNIC Handle M_D9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAH43gAmT9uY8euiIRAs0DAKCDarFVRz6dhrAmiL7/+JSNqewnBgCggTp2 UiVbOU+zfKHpl/mbEAv+cm0= =TEKr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 03:06:12 UTC
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