Dave Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:07:06AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> >Is the floppy enabled in the BIOS ?
>
> Yes, it works fine under windows.
The only time I've seen the floppy driver fail to find a
controller has been when its been explicitly disabled in the bios,
or we've screwed up something really fundamental like interrupt routing,
so this is very strange.
does booting with acpi=off make it discoverable ?
Dave
New messages with acpi=off when floppy plugged in:
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr
sectors (1 MB)
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr
sectors (1 MB)
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 12 13:39:53 hill1 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 12 13:39:54 hill1 kernel: sda: unknown partition table
BTW, this is a Dell Inspiron 8600
Doug P
