Intel 815 + Floppy

[David Short]

Let me start by saying that I LOVE FreeBSD---I love it for servers  I 
love to use it on the desktop!  I have merely one simple question for you 
all and that is this:

One of my machines has a motherboard with and Intel 815 chipset.  Well, 
after installing the 5.x series (5.1, 5.2), you cannot mount a floppy.  It 
gives you Input/Output errors.  However, in the 4.x series (4.8, 4.9), I 
don't seem to have this problem.  Is there any way to make this work in 
the 5.x series?  Or better yet... will this be fixed before 5.x becomes 
STABLE?

Thank you for FreeBSD,
Dave
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Re: Intel 815 + Floppy

[Chris Pressey]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:45:59 -0600 (CST)
David Short [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 One of my machines has a motherboard with and Intel 815 chipset. 
 Well, after installing the 5.x series (5.1, 5.2), you cannot mount a
 floppy.  It gives you Input/Output errors.  However, in the 4.x series
 (4.8, 4.9), I don't seem to have this problem.  Is there any way to
 make this work in the 5.x series?  Or better yet... will this be fixed
 before 5.x becomes STABLE?

Disclaimer: the following is a wild guess; I don't run 5.x.

Do you have ACPI enabled?  If so, try disabling it.

On my 4.9 system, if I have APM enabled, I can't use the floppy drive.
IIRC ACPI is what 5.x has instead of APM, and it might have the same
issues.  Or not.  I really don't know.  As I said, wild guess.

-Chris
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