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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote: |
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>> I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was |
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>> one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added |
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>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my |
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>> IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted. |
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>> |
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>> Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every entry there (0, 1, 2, and |
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>> 255) are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs: |
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> |
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> /dev/fd is a symlink to /dev/self/fd |
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> and I believe that fd here means "file descriptor" not "floppy disk" |
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> |
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> do you have devices /dev/fd0 etc instead? If not, what do you get from |
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I do not. |
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> grep -r fd /etc/udev/rules.d/ |
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produces: |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/99-libsane.rules:SYSFS{idVendor}=="06bd", |
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SYSFS{idProduct}=="20fd", MODE="660", GROUP="scanner" |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules:KERNEL=="ram*|loop*|fd*|nbd*|gnbd*|dm-*|md*", |
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GOTO="persistent_storage_end" |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", |
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NAME="floppy/%k", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="floppy" |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", |
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ATTRS{cmos}=="*", RUN+="create_floppy_devices -c -t $attr{cmos} -m %M -M |
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0660 -G floppy $root/floppy/%k" |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", ACTION=="remove", |
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RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'rm -f $root/floppy/%k?*'" |
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-Tim |
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