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