Re: i need my floppy disk drive.

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:13:48PM +0200, h wrote:
> i'm using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 but have been told to post to the current mailing 
> list about this issue.
> 
> several of us from freenode #freebsd have been pulling our hair off trying to 
> get our floppy disk drive to work. at some point jer told he's had the flaw 
> with his machines for over a year since the early 5.1.
> 
> basically i can't mount my floppy drive. with ACPI on my kernel couldn't even 
> detect the floppy controller. ever since i removed acpi now my kernel sees 
> the controller:
> 
> # dmesg|grep fd
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port 
> 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> 
> but the fd0 or fdc0 isn't in /dev, there's only a fd/ dir:
> 
> ls /dev/f*
> 0       1       2
> 
> so the floppy disk drive is still invisible. i recently replaced my drive with 
> a drive and its cable known to work on another machine.

Could you provide the whole dmesg?  There should be some sort of error
if the device made it that far and then didn't show up in /dev since
/dev is devfs now.

> i have offline machines with no burner for which i need the floppy disk to 
> communicate with. if 4- can do it why wouldn't 5- ?

Overall, it sounds like you have resource allocation or discovery
problems.  Many of these have been fixed in -current.  You should
probably try updating.

Do those machines have USB?  If so, a keychain drive is a much better
option then a floppy.

-- Brooks

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