No floppy device in FC5

[Douglas Phillipson]

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

Doug P