Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote:
> > I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was
> > one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my
> > IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted.
> >
> > Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every entry there (0, 1, 2, and
> > 255) are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs:
>
> /dev/fd is a symlink to /dev/self/fd
>
> and I believe that fd here means "file descriptor" not "floppy disk"
>
> do you have devices /dev/fd0 etc instead? If not, what do you get from
>
> grep -r fd /etc/udev/rules.d/

We're talking IDE floppy here, not floppy. That's /dev/hd* 
vs. /dev/floppy/*.

Bye...

	Dirk
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