Floppy Drive Not working in 5.1

[Hasse Hansson]

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.
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