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... -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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