For about half a year I have been living with a behaviour of the
386BSD floppy driver which showed up in not recognizing the presence
of the fd controller when a disk was inserted and the door was left open.
Booting the fd has never been a problem. I always was blaming
some strange BIOS or hardware property for being responsible until
some genious mind kicked me to perhaps try it with door open and disk removed.
I did and the problem could be worked around. I did not like this workaround,though, because all too often I forget a floppy in the slot and system uptime is a precious resource - you know. Anyway, here is something
what I would not call a patch because it lacks the proper format, but for applying the fix manually, I leave it here for everyone's convenience: