Re: Floppy disk drive no longer detected

From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:10:10 -0700
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:20:35PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> Ok, below is a patch to address this.  There are two things this fixes.  
> The first, which I think Marcel's laptop had from the dmesg I saw, is that 
> _FDI is not required so a system may have child devices of FDC that lack an 
> _FDI method.

Yup. That seems to be resolved:

fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0

However, no fd0. Hence no /dev/fd0. With FDC_DEBUG I get:
	:
[0x3->FDDATA][0xdf->FDDATA][0x2->FDDATA][0x10->FDDATA][FDDATA->0x90]
	:
[fdc0 IDLE]
	:

And that's it...

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel_at_xcllnt.net
Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 22:10:11 UTC

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