Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:34:15 +0100 From: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1 Message-ID: <3FA75677.7050903@fi.infn.it> In-Reply-To: <20031103214729.GA8221@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031103210959.58d4afc1.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031103214729.GA8221@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Floppy is not workign since 5.0 RELEASE I had reported it but noone answered me. so since for my work I need the floppy (to sign certificates into another machine) I Switched to 4.8 RELEASE where floppy works. Anyway I Report too that floppy is not working on 5.1 I have a XP1000 thanks Rick Wilko Bulte wrote: >On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > >>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> >> >>>Hi Wilko, >>> >>>Wilko Bulte wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a >>>>long time >>>> >>>> >>>Hm... Ok - EV56 here.. Maybe I should manage to find my old backups >>>made with the 4 system. Back to 2001 I remember that I was able to boot >>>from floppy (I was playing around with a non-bootable scsi controller and >>>booting from flopy+changing rootdev then) on an other AlphaPC 164LX. >>> >>> >>Booting floopy and changin rootdev doesn't require floppy support in >>kernel. >>But it's still interesting - I have no floppy either :( >>I thought the tsunami issue was non working floppy and not non >>existing? >> >> > >Non working, last time I tried: > >fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M >fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M >fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold^M >fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0^M > >on > >FreeBSD 4.9-RC #3: Thu Oct 16 09:25:37 CEST 2003^M > root@ds10.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DS10^M > > >Furtheron: > >fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port >0x3f7,0x3f >0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0^M >fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6^M > >on > >FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 01:42:39 GMT 2003^M > root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC^M > > >I have not tried to use it then, but it was detected . > > >
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