Re: 2.4.12-ac3 floppy module requires 0x3f0-0x3f1 ioports

Thomas Hood (jdthood@mail.com)
04 Nov 2001 21:40:13 -0500


On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:18, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> Well here you have it...
>
> W98SE reports the FDC at 0x3f0..0x3f5 and 0x3f7

That's what the ThinkPad 600 technical reference
manual says about my machine too.

> all in all it is very weird and I do not know what to make of it...
> [ABIT SA6 motherboard with AWARD bios]

Well, if the floppy driver never accesses 0x3f0 or 0x3f1,
then it would seem that it should not reserved those
ioports.

--
Thomas

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/