Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it looks like my floppy disapeared since 5.X. (I'm shure I used it once to
> upgrade the SRM. But I'm not _that_ shure that I was able to use it even
> in FreeBSD 4 - and I don't store old dmesgs that often.. maybe on some old
> backups ;)


At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a long
time

Wilko

> 
> >>>show dev
> dka0.0.0.5.0               DKA0               SEAGATE ST34573W  6244
> dqa0.0.0.11.0              DQA0             Compaq   CRD-8402B  1.01    
> dva0.0.0.0.0               DVA0                               
> pka0.7.0.5.0               PKA0                  SCSI Bus ID 7
> >>>
> 
> So the physical connection seems to work. But:
> 
> olivleh1 at dill olivleh1> grep '^fd' /var/run/dmesg.boot 
> 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
> olivleh1 at dill olivleh1> grep '\.fd' /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/DILL.hints 
> hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
> hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
> hint.fd.0.drive="0"
> olivleh1 at dill olivleh1> grep '\.hints' /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/DILL
> #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
> hints           "DILL.hints"
> olivleh1 at dill olivleh1> 
> 
> Where is fd0? ;)
> 
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