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Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: |
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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 IDE |
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> chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted. |
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> Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every entry there (0, 1, 2, and 255) |
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> are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs: |
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That's correct. |
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> # dmesg|grep -i floppy |
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> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide |
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> What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from |
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> something in /dev/fd? |
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Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries |
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in /dev for your IDE Floppy device. Read some more lines in your dmesg |
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output. |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |
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