Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:08:24 +0200 From: Hasse Hansson <webmaster@swedehost.com> To: Kelly Brown <kbsquared@cox.net>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Not working in 5.1 Message-ID: <200308220908.24407.webmaster@swedehost.com> In-Reply-To: <20030821165708.KJDK3983.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20030821165708.KJDK3983.fed1mtao01.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net>
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 18.57, Kelly Brown wrote: > Hello All: > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.1 as a fresh install and there is > something weird going on with my floppy drive. > > The directory structure that was created looks like this... > /dev/df/0 > /dev/df/1 > /dev/df/2 > > This is what is showing up in dmesg... > fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 > fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range 6 ports > > However this is not /dev/fdc0 file. > > If I try to mount /dev/df/0 this is what I get... > mount /dev/fd/0 /floppy > mount: /dev/fd/0: Block device required > > I've done searches on the web and can see that other people have had > the same problem but I haven't seen a fix. Can anybody help me? > > Thanks! > -kbsquared > > Hi. I added the following to /boot/device.hints : hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" and that solved the problem for me. Regards Hasse. ____________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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