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Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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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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I should have thought of the new to Linux factor. /dev/floppy is only a |
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link to /dev/floppy/0. Just like /dev/mouse is a link to |
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/dev/input/mouse0 for me. There are a lot of things that are only |
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links. Even if the /dev/fd0 was there and the /dev/floppy/0 was not, it |
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would not work. |
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Look in dmesg for something like this: |
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> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M |
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> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 |
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That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to |
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that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old. |
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O_O Oh, to get dmesg, just go to a terminal and type in dmesg. If you |
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don't want to search through it, type in "dmesg | grep fd0" and see what |
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it says. Leave out the quotes though. |
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Hope that helps. |
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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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