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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:49:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with fdc0 device
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.44.0304082248330.8324-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>
In-Reply-To: <20030408180935.GB9968@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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floppy works fine on my Miata MX5 on FreeBSD-4.7
but Miata is totaly another thing... or the floppy controller is the same
kind of chipset based?

thanks

Rick

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:31:21PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > XP1000G, FreeBSD-5.0 here.
> > I am not able to mount the floppy.
> > in the kernel
> >
> > device          fdc
> > device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
>
> Alphas don't use ATAPI floppys so you can remove that one.
>
> > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
> > 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> > fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
> >
> > but I Cannot find any devices named /dev/fd0
> >
> > I don't know what to do else I Read all the FAQ I Could find and all the
> > google references I could find without succes.
> >
> > I need fd0 to work, I use it to sign certificates and to
> > bring certificates from the CA machine to my computer to send them to
> > users.
>
> On my Tsunami-chipset based box (a DS10) I never got the floppy to work
> correctly with FreeBSD. Not a hardware problem, something in FreeBSD. I
> would not be surprised the XP1000 has the same problem.
>
> --
> |   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
> |/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte
>



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