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 1NLOe6-0004iq-3D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1EFDE0F95; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F42E0F95 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 93D873510A7 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:16:55 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Message-ID: <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs39 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/pT70YD7F/o_MDI4WmS5IdV+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f55474e9-2d7c-4daf-9cf5-42921f80d1fe X-Archives-Hash: d6f83821b81ccd2c26f9044aca3bd61b --Sig_/pT70YD7F/o_MDI4WmS5IdV+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > 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? > > =20 > I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled=20 > (by default! why?). For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by default. --=20 Neil Bothwick Protect your software at all costs -- all else is meat. --Sig_/pT70YD7F/o_MDI4WmS5IdV+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksqrdcACgkQum4al0N1GQNEOwCeJFFkZ10Pu3QazwUzD07WGq7J lYYAoL8NtrtqRXFGQVt/YZsIY3U8WntU =G1iX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/pT70YD7F/o_MDI4WmS5IdV+--