Fedora 12 not seeing floppy disk controller
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Fri Dec 18 07:04:41 UTC 2009
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 20:03:55 -0600,
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> For some reason my F-12 system is not seeing my floppy disk controller
> at boot time. If I manually run "modprobe floppy" the controller is
> recognized ("FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077") and the drive works. Any
> ideas? F-11 finds the controller OK.
>
> F-12: kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64, udev-145-14.fc12.x86_64
> F-11: kernel-2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64, udev-141-7.fc11.x86_64
>
> Search in bugzilla not finding anything relevant.
Take a look at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741
Thanks for the work around tip. I don't use my floppy drives too often, but
I was looking at flashing a bios and it looks like a need to write a floppy
to do it.
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