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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:30
Message-Id: 20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? by Marcus Wanner
1 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
2
3 > > It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
4 > > drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block
5 > > devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module,
6 > > maybe you just need to modprobe floppy?
7 > >
8 > I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled
9 > (by default! why?).
10
11 For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by
12 default.
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16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Protect your software at all costs -- all else is meat.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>