Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:18:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Maciej Zenczykowski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.12-ac3 floppy module requires 0x3f0-0x3f1 ioports |
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Well here you have it... > > W98SE reports the FDC at 0x3f0..0x3f5 and 0x3f7 > > Its absolutely correct. 0x3f6 isnt floppy. That I suspect is what > is causing the problem because it tries to grab 0x3f6 in Linux
No Linux doesn't grab 0x3f6 - what it grabs is 0x3f0-0x3f5 and 0x3f7 - exactly as reported by w98 - however 0x3f0-0x3f1 have already been reserved by the pnpbios code, since they are listed in the bios as motherboard resources, while 0x3f2-03xf5 and 03xf7 are listed as floppy -> the problem is that the floppy reserves ports that it does not need (in fact it could skip reserving 0x3f3 also...)
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