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Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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> That's correct. |
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> |
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>> # dmesg|grep -i floppy |
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>> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> HTH... |
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> |
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> Dirk |
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Nothing there either. |
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# dmesg|grep -i hd |
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Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 |
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ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA |
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ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA |
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hda: WDC WD400BB-23DEA0, ATA DISK drive |
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hdb: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive |
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hdc: Hewlett-Packard DVD Writer 300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive |
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hdd: FX320S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive |
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hda: max request size: 128KiB |
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hda: Host Protected Area detected. |
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hda: Host Protected Area disabled. |
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hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) |
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hda: cache flushes not supported |
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hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 |
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hdb: max request size: 128KiB |
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hdb: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, |
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UDMA(100) |
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hdb: cache flushes not supported |
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hdb: hdb1 |
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hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) |
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hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA |
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ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal |
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ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode |
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ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first |
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block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max |
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trans age 30 |
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ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3) |
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ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names |
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NTFS-fs warning (device hdb1): load_system_files(): $LogFile is not |
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clean. Will not be able to remount read-write. Mount in Windows. |
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Adding 506036k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:506036k |
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My primary IDE is two hard drives, hda being Gentoo and relevant |
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partitions and hdb holding Windows XP in a single partition. My |
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secondary is two CD/DVD drives. Nothing in dmesg, either in this excerpt |
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or otherwise, indicates the presence of an IDE floppy at /dev/hd*. |
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# ls -al /dev/hd* |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hda |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hda1 |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hda2 |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hda3 |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hdb |
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brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hdb1 |
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brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hdc |
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brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/hdd |
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-Tim |
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