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On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>>> It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 |
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>>> drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block |
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>>> devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, |
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>>> maybe you just need to modprobe floppy? |
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>> I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled |
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>> (by default! why?). |
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> For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by |
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> default. |
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But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do |
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things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence? |
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Marcus |
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