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 1NLMT9-000383-Ex for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:57:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 900CEE0F28; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7939CE0F28 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16] helo=sep.dynalias.net) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NLMSC-0003kP-JE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:05 -0500 Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B94EC64B02C; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:59:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:59:55 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Message-ID: <20091217195955.GA19591@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: b7de23ee-40f6-4bec-b87f-8636128d8339 X-Archives-Hash: 9bef87f332484175cdf7dd82d107a561 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > 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? My mistake. It's been a while since I built a kernel with floppy support. W -- You should approach relationships like chess. And preferably as Deep Blue plays it, or at least as Kasparov. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1105 days, 18:51