Re: No floppy device in FC5

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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


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