Appendix 7: Arguments

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floppy=asus pci

Sets the bitmask to allow only devices 0 and 1. This is

the default.

floppy=daring

Indicates a  well behaved  floppy controller, which al 

lows the driver to provide more efficient and smoother

operation and will speed up certain operations. However

this may cause failures on some controllers.

floppy=one fdc

Tells the driver that you have only one controller. This

is the default.

floppy=[address,]two fdc

Indicates to the driver that there are two floppy disk

controllers and that the second controller resides at

address.

If address is not entered then 0x370 is

assumed.

floppy=thinkpad

Informs the driver that this is a Thinkpad and will

deal with the inverted disk change line used by these

machines.

floppy=0,thinkpad

Tells the driver that this is not a Thinkpad.