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