On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 12:08 -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > > 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 > This is a USB floppy drive? That is different than the standard floppy device in Linux. > Doug P >
