No floppy device in FC5

[Jeff Vian]

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
>