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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> >How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be |
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> >called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to |
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> >address it... |
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> I usually just look around in there and find it. I use udev, I assume |
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> you do to, and this is what I get: |
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> > root@smoker / # ls -al /dev/fd0 |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 23 15:45 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0 |
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> > root@smoker / # |
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> So if you don't have the link, it should be /dev/floppy/0 that is the |
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> floppy drive. |
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> Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out |
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> what HTH was. LOL |
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> Dale |
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> :-) |
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> To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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> I have four rigs: |
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> 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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> 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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> 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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> 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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> All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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michael@camille ~ $ ls /dev/floppy |
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ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory |
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No /dev/floppy!!! |
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