Re: 2.6.0 under vmware ?

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:55:06 +0200
Ville Herva <vherva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:20:32PM +0200, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
> >
> > There is one regression, though: 2.2.x and 2.4.x can see /dev/fd0 and
> > /dev/fd1 under vmware. 2.6.1rc1 only find /dev/fd0. Does anyone else see
> > this?
> 
> Turns out the second floppy drive was disabled from the bios.
> 
> Oddly, 2.2 and 2.4 don't care.
> 
> If I turn the second drive on from the bios, 2.6 finds it, too.

Probably because 2.6 uses ACPI and 2.2/2.4 were not.
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