From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLJmz-0003RY-KJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:05:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5682E0E37; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B010CE0E37 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NLJmO-0006Ln-H3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:44 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:39 +0100 id 0001047B.4B2A64A7.0000054D From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.4; i686; ; ) References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4753d158-1e2e-427b-9cfe-5c7877bb29ae X-Archives-Hash: 4d65c489e8765da9133dbe18a7e53fee Willie Wong writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner > squawked: > > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the > > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block > > device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I > > doing wrong? > > You are using udev, I assume? Did you compile the IDE floppy support > into your kernel? It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, maybe you just need to modprobe floppy? Wonko