Re: Floppy disk drive no longer detected

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:00:15 -0700
Tim Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:13:26PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
>>My floppy disk drive is no longer probed correctly by -CURRENT. I get the
>>following message, but none about fd0 (and /dev/fd0 does not exist):
>>
>>fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
>>
>>Previously it probed as:
>>
>>fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
>>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>>
>>The ACPI DSDT for this system is available at:
>>http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/k8v.txt.bz2
> 
> Ok, it looks like the FDC device should have a child device for each drive,
> but my system's DSDT has none. Could we work around this in the driver by
> not using _FDE/_FDI to probe unless the FDC device has at least 1 child with
> an _FDI object, or should we add an entry to the quirks table for this
> particular BIOS instead?

Thanks for the info.  I'm working on a fix for this, as well as the case 
where a child device exists but has no _FDI method.

-- 
-Nate
Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 15:03:20 UTC

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