2.6.8.1-mm2: floppy magically disappaperd
Bjorn:
I also had the same problem as the original poster. Your new patch fixed my case. Here's the excerpt from my dmesg:
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8.1-mm2acpi_floppy_resource: 4 ioports at 0x3f2acpi_floppy_resource: 1 ioports at 0x3f7
floppy: controller ACPI FDC0 at I/O 0x3f2-0x3f5, 0x3f7-0x3f7 irq 6 dma channel 2Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Regards,
Ozkan Sezer