Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> If I remember properly, it's because the floppy drive needs ISA DMA,
> which is not implemented in NetBSD/Xen (I don't know the details of
> ISA DMA so I don't know if Xen can do it or not, and I don't remember if
> a linux kernel sees it under Xen 2.0.x).

According to http://tinyurl.com/pe5tn Debian Linux can use programmed IO
to access the floppy disk.

ciao
     Klaus