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 1NLNn3-0005bH-NW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:21:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC368E0DC5; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFBDE0DC5 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091217212129.IFWE6358.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:29 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id JMMV1d00R5Sa0uU02MMWaJ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:30 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=EvRd2doraLOGgXPtCxYls7kl7Mkc7muryAdTQQ/qGWU= c=1 sm=1 a=7ebqzpheMCEA:10 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=JOxOQkAMIVFv-tCdWbQA:9 a=hnwY0Kv6AM6OIDaUHU08fJc1_d8A:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -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> <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4256a89e-8159-4fd8-99f3-4efba8d54a4c X-Archives-Hash: 850c23733ad0654831b98ed3491fff77 On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > 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? > I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled (by default! why?). I enabled it, rebuilt, rebooted, and now it works. Thanks guys! Marcus