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On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Willie Wong writes: |
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>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner |
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>> squawked: |
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>>> I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the |
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>>> /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block |
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>>> device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I |
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>>> doing wrong? |
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>> You are using udev, I assume? Did you compile the IDE floppy support |
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>> into your kernel? |
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> It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), |
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> but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Normal |
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> floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, maybe you just need to |
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> 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?). I enabled it, rebuilt, rebooted, and now it works. |
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Thanks guys! |
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Marcus |
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