Floppy drive not detected after 8.0-RELEASE->8.1-PRERELEASE

[Scott Allendorf]

I recently upgraded to 8.1-PRERELEASE (amd64) on a Dell Optiplex 960 running 8.0-RELEASE. After the upgrade, my floppy drive was no longer detected. After a binary search, the following commit appears to be responsible:

   http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=203544

uname -a output:

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The floppy-related lines from a verbose boot before the commit:

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fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
fdc: fdc0 already exists; skipping it
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The floppy-related lines from a verbose boot after the commit:

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fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80
fdc0: [FILTER]
fdc: fdc0 already exists; skipping it
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: output ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
fdc0: input ready timeout
===========================================================================



Thanks,

Scott

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FreeBSD scatest2.physics.uiowa.edu 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 27 14:09:09 CDT 2010 s...@scatest2.physics.uiowa.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GELFAND amd64 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 Has anyone else seen this or am I the only person that still needs floppy drives to work? This is a test system, so I am able to test potential fixes at will.

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