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 1NLQzL-00079H-Us for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:46:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB8B7E0654; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D9DE0654 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091218004534.MHOL13474.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:34 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id JQlZ1d0095Sa0uU02QlZYS; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:33 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=OSH592LicKi2+aIpjjLcurvLcTlgRSPLpNzS8VagXAo= c=1 sm=1 a=7ebqzpheMCEA:10 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=jOMsetbDeLTcW23cvb0A:9 a=vgT2RrXwaSOoBV80ua-gVY5pfHIA:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -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> <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 54bfd2e9-2a1b-4aac-b77e-1e55296963e6 X-Archives-Hash: 67238b214a8147e276d9efab0dccbdd8 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