On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:37:50PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > : I did the USB/Firewire thing just to make sure one wasn't the direct > > : cause. > > > > Maybe we have yet another issue with resources... > > I thing I have noticed is that when the floppy attach fails there is another > attempt a short time later. > > Not sure if it's related though. > > Anyone know of any debugging that could be tried to shed more light on the > problem?
I've built a kernel without "device fdc" on amd64 at least since 5.4 IIRC. I had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive. Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive holds a lot more data anyway. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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