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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:18:26 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Subject:   Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199908140118.SAA02467@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:22:16 %2B0200." <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990813111450.22053t-100000@elect8> 

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> 
> Just tried it on a Sony Vaio with a USB floppy. fd0c probe fails because
> of the following error:
> 
> 	direction bit not set
> 
> Somehow it finds something, but is not able to use it.
> 
> Any pointers on how I could fix/avoid/quirk this?

You're not getting it.  You don't need the floppy driver at that point; 
both floppies have been read already.

The floppy hardware it's seeing is probably in the super-I/O chip, and 
it's probably disabled in some fashion.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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