Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

[Alex Schuster]

Willie Wong writes:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
> squawked:
> > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
> > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
> > device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I
> > doing wrong?
>
> You are using udev, I assume? Did you compile the IDE floppy support
> into your kernel?

It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), 
but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Normal 
floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, maybe you just need to 
modprobe floppy?

	Wonko