On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:59:30 +0900 Horms wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:41:05PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:41:27 +0900 Horms wrote:
[...]
> > > Are you sure that the drive is actually at 0x03f2?
> >
> > How can I check this?
> > Is that a hardware setting (such as a jumper or something) you're
> > referring to?
>
> It is usually set in the BIOS IIRC.
I didn't find anything to directly set the floppy drive I/O port in the
BIOS configuration.
For the record, the machine features an Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG.
The line at the bottom of the screen during the POST is 08/28/96
i430VX-W877-2A59GF2AC-00.
On the other hand, I found some floppy-related configuration parameters:
* Standard CMOS Setup -> Drive A type: { 1.44M | 2.88M }
* Standard CMOS Setup -> Floppy 3 Mode: { Disabled | Drive A }
* BIOS Features Setup -> Boot up Floppy Seek: { Disabled | Enabled }
* Power Managemente Setup -> IRQ6 (Floppy): { OFF | ON }
* PNP/PCI Configuration -> Resources: { Manual | Auto }
* Int. Peripherals -> Onboard FDD controller: { Disabled | Enabled }
I tried the 2^3=8 possibilities with the last three of them (keeping the
first three on the left values).
Then I tried the 2^3=8 possibilities with the first three (keeping the
last three on the right values).
No luck: I got the same error with every configuration I tried.
I didn't have the time to try out *all* the 2^6=64 possibilities...
I could reproduce the problem even with DeadCD (a live distro based on
Debian which comes with kernel 2.6.8, just like sarge:
http://web.isteve.bofh.cz/deadcd/).
[...]
> A good place to start would be to compare the information you
> posted on a working kernel, with the non-working one.
It seems that every 2.4.x kernel I try works with no floppy issues,
while every 2.6.x kernel fails to insert floppy.ko showing the error.
I could not find a working 2.6.x kernel to compare with the sarge one...
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