[BETA2] Floppy drive no longer accessible

Philipp Ost pj at smo.de
Sat Sep 12 20:34:27 UTC 2009


Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:06:19 +0200
> Philipp Ost <pj at smo.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>I'm running 8.0-BETA2 (i386) and have some problems concerning my
>>floppy drive -- it's no longer accessible because there's no entry
>>in /dev:
>>
>>$ find /dev -name \*fd\*
>>/dev/fd
>>$
> 
> 
> There was a regression in the ACPI code that was fixed after 8.0-BETA2
> - see the thread "fdc(4) regression: fdc0 fails to probe" for details.

Now, this is something I'm really uncomfortable with as I actually have 
read that particular thread. Thanks for heads-up anyway.

In the meantime I updated my system to BETA4 and everything is running 
fine so far.

Sorry for the noise,
Philipp
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