i386/91476: floppy drive doesn't work in MS Virtual Server 2005 R2

Björn König bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Jan 7 22:10:12 PST 2006


The following reply was made to PR i386/91476; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  dr at integritasystems.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/91476: floppy drive doesn't work in MS Virtual Server 2005
 R2
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:08:59 +0100

 This is probably the same issue as already described in problem report 
 kern/79944. Apply the patch below and compile and install a new kernel.
 
 Regards Björn
 
 
 # cd /usr/src
 # patch -p1 -i fdc.c-2005010801.diff
 # make buildkernel
 # make installkernel
 # reboot
 
 --- fdc.c-2005010801.diff begins here ---
 --- src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc.c.orig	Sun Jan  8 06:55:49 2006
 +++ src/sys/dev/fdc/fdc.c	Sun Jan  8 06:56:12 2006
 @@ -1621,8 +1621,6 @@
   	 */
   	fdout_wr(fdc, 0);
   	fdout_wr(fdc, 0);
 -	if (fdsts_rd(fdc) != 0)
 -		return (ENXIO);
 
   	/*
   	 * Clear the reset and see it come ready.
 --- fdc.c-2005010801.diff ends here ---


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