If it's any consolation, the SunOS 4.X kernels report that the floppy
drive is unexpectedly busy.  I think the chip is there, but no one is home
on the other side of it.  (I realize that the drive doesn't exist on the
slc and elc machines, but wanted to point out that the SunOS solution isn't
any cleaner or dirtier than the NetBSD one.

-Brian
On Apr 6, 10:37pm, Taras Ivanenko wrote:
} Subject: Old PR port-sparc/5760
} There was an old PR that I submitted for 1.3.2, so now I got a gentle
} reminder from Gnats that it is still open. Here is the bug:
} 
} On Sparc SLC (all-in-one, diskless) I got floppy drive "detected" when
} none is physically present. I tried the newest greatest 1.4_ALPHA
} kernel and still has the messages during the boot: 
} fdc0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf72000000 ipl 11<3>fdc result: overrun 
} GFCLOCK: unexpected result softpri 4: chip 82077
} 
} After those messages, the boot proceedes normally.
} 
} (If I parsed the report status correctly, Eric Fair is looking into
} it).
} 
} 	Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
} 
>-- End of excerpt from Taras Ivanenko