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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!cs.city.ac.uk!usenet From: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (Nick Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Floppy driver not working under freebsd 1.1.5.1 Date: 27 Jul 1994 09:23:22 GMT Organization: Systems Architecture Research Centre, City University Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NJW.94Jul27102323@wilma.cs.city.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.city.ac.uk I've just upgraded up to freebsd 1.1.5.1 and the floppy driver no longer detects the two drives on the machine... when booting, I get the fdc driver printing it's banner: Jul 27 08:47:27 dogbolter /386bsd: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa but then the probe just sits there for a while and then gives up, just leaving me with the null message: Jul 27 08:47:27 dogbolter /386bsd: fdc0: Previous version of the kernel happily found the drives: Jul 26 09:50:38 dogbolter /386bsd: fdc0: [0: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in] [1:fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in] I'm using the identical configuration for the machine, only with added multicast support and pcaudio device. No other changes there. Anyone know why the new kernel isn't happy with the floppies? -- Nick Williams, Systems Architecture Research Centre, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. UK. Web: http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/finger?njw E-mail: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (MIME and ATK) Work Telephone: +44 71 477 8551 Work Fax: +44 71 477 8587