Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive


On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Roland Smith wrote:

I've built a kernel without "device fdc" on amd64 at least since 5.4 IIRC. I
had problems with hangs when accessing the floppy drive.

Haven't used floppies in years, don't miss them. A USB thumbdrive holds
a lot more data anyway.

I build all of my servers without CD and floppy drivers -- I configure them to build as loadable module just in case, but I've never yet had the need to load them... If I could get freebsd to install from a usb CD, i'd probably order the boxes without cd drives altogether, as it is used pretty much exactly once per life of server around here.