From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk>
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>>
>> I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled
>> (by default! why?).
>>
> For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by
> default.
>
But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do
things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence?
Marcus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 15:53 [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 16:06 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-17 17:04 ` Alex Schuster
2009-12-17 19:59 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-17 21:21 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 22:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-18 0:45 ` Marcus Wanner [this message]
2009-12-18 4:17 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-18 9:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-18 17:22 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-22 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-12-22 19:18 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 17:04 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 20:06 ` Willie Wong
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