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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:41:55
Message-Id: 1138674784.22913.13.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive by Dale
1 On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 -0600, Dale wrote:
2 >
3 > Look in dmesg for something like this:
4 >
5 > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
6 > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
7 >
8 >
9 > That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to
10 > that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old.
11
12 post means after - so if this is your dmesg output, yours was made after
13 1991. (If the date is in fact referring to the floppy hardware)
14 --
15 Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au>
16
17 A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
18 -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca>