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 1NLJnI-0003U0-LH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:05:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE4D0E0E57; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA78E0E57 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091217170459.DHJO13474.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:04:59 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id JH4x1d00D5Sa0uU02H4xNA; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:04:58 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=j6Iv8g2RVZFaeAcEAYuSXGVi/IweyziuCuDP3hU+Oy4= c=1 sm=1 a=7ebqzpheMCEA:10 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=gEHv6cWJQ2vpBj8i0rIA:9 a=sdUVnIFwVsn1RJNi6lJRHDPXyWgA:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B2A64B8.9070303@cox.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:04:56 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 422af4ea-c0ff-46ad-a529-2c594ad9f939 X-Archives-Hash: d5406ad730f85969e8b1bbe41694d217 On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > 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? > The only floppy options I can find in the kernel relating to floppy drives in the kernel config are mac floppy, amiga floppy, and atari floppy, none of which apply to me. I believe I am using udev, and both the cd/dvd drives work with my current setup. Thanks! Marcus