Bug 115726

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Description of problem:
I had this problem that is femiliar to Bugs (57253-60887-64046-75687)
but the difrence is that my mutherboard is (ASUS P4T-F) but same Asus
and the I am using RedHat 9 (2.4.20-8 Kernel that comes with it)
I tried all the ways that mensioned in the bugs above
and still get:
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Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
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even with (Plug & Play O/S=No) in bios
and the strange thing is that while installing, the emergency boot
disk was made successfully, but after i finish i get that up message.
and when i run the PC from the RedHat CD, and choose 'linux rescue'
and try to mount the floppy with:
'mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/xxx' the floppy is succefuly mounted,
but normal booting says:
"mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"
i found this strange.. WHY?

I will type here what i did, in case i did something wrong
CoZ i have a short experiance in linux (I installed redHat linux a
month ago):


Steps to Reproduce:
1.I added '+' befor some lines in 'bootsect.S' file
in '/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/i386/boot' as folows:
----------
kill_motor:
+#if 1
+	xorw	%ax, %ax		# reset FDC
+	xorb	%dl, %dl
+	int	$0x13
+#else
	movw	$0x3f2, %dx
	xorb	%al, %al
	outb	%al, %dx
+#endif
----------
(i think the '#' sign is to drop the line, but why the '+' for.. i
don't know)
anyway .. it didn't work (the same 'no floppy controllers found')

2.i tried to say:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8   (or 'cd /usr/src/linux-2.4')
make xconfig
i choosed 'Block Devices'
i make 'Normal floppy disk support' as module
i chose 'Save and exit'
the 'xconfig' told me to do a 'make dep' so i did it were i am
and it didn't work too (the same 'no floppy controllers found')

3.i tried the same as above:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8   (or 'cd /usr/src/linux-2.4')
make xconfig
i choosed 'ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support'
i choosed 'IDE,ATA, and ATAPE block devices'
i make 'Use multi-mode by default' to 'No'
i chose 'Save and exit'
and the 'xconfig' told me to do a 'make dep' so i did it
and it didn't work too.


How reproducible:
Always


Actual Results:  Same problem

Expected Results:  It should work fine

Additional info:

(all the three ways i tried here are some solutions from
Bugs (57253-60887-64046-75687) here
But why don't they work with me? .. somethink i didn't do
correctly? (i'm new on linux.. so help me)

by the way.. when i use 'dmesg' to dislpy what was typed
while booting, a line apears:

'ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide'

does this mean anything?

Is there anyone can help me with this?
Thanx for even trying..