floppy drives and ACPI

[David Rhodus]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:14:36 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
<asmodai at xxxxxx> wrote:
> -On [20041014 08:32], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >    Well, I'm scratching my head because my boxes load acpi.ko and don't
> >    do this.  They detect the floppy the same way with or without.  Maybe
> >    Joerg has an idea or can tell us what diagnostic to run.
> 
> My box at home has no issues either.  (NVIDIA nForce 2)
> But at work, PIIX4 based mobo, it has issues with ACPI loaded.
> 

I haven't had a machine with a real floppy hooked up in a while, but
at home and the office I use a usb-floppy disk drive whenever the rare
occasion comes up I need one and it works just fine.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>