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Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0
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I've seen several people post the same problem in the -CURRENT mailing list.
No one has responded to them.

Looking at the "open issues" on the  FreeBSD 5.1 ToDo page, I would say that 
ACPI is pretty much untested and very immature in FreeBSD.

>From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
>To: Lord Sith <lordsith49@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, paralyz3@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0
>Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:11:48 -0500 (CDT)
>
>On Thu, 8 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Lord Sith wrote:
> >
> > > What does dmesg say about your floppy drive? Does it detect it? Are 
>there
> > > errors trying to probe it?
> > >
> > > I have this annoying problem on my FreeBSD test box (ABIT BH6 
>motherboard)
> > > where if I enable the ACPI module my floppy drive became unusable.
> >
> > I have problems reading my floppy too (Intel 815/850 motherboard), but I
> > have not related it with ACPI.  How do you disable this module?
> >
>
>ok, I added the line:
>
>	hint.acpi.0.disable="1"
>
>to the file:  /boot/device.hints
>
>and, at last, I have my floppy drive working.
>
>Why is this happening?
>

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