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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 IDE |
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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 255) |
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are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs: |
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# dmesg|grep -i floppy |
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ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide |
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# uname -r |
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2.6.22-gentoo-r2 |
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# cd /dev/fd; ls -al |
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total 0 |
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dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jun 3 02:32 . |
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dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jun 3 02:32 .. |
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lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 0 -> /dev/pts/0 |
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lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 1 -> /dev/pts/0 |
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lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 2 -> /dev/pts/0 |
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lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 255 -> /dev/pts/0 |
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# ls -al /dev/fd |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd |
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What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from |
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something in /dev/fd? |
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-Tim |
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