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 1NLUIF-0004ll-E7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:18:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D635E06C8; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f201.google.com (mail-iw0-f201.google.com [209.85.223.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42310E06C8 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1790637iwn.32 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:17:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uwLVCrqyQw2IRtUAYVv3r4OEj6wFMEZVhbVO4tZsF+A=; b=f1Wgc1MXTDIfdC/Db8ifT/WyRIC/GpZWGHaHUm8hbVJAKQVCqA6Q0fKpkyhk6K2/Vw i/ThQXB+XjPXOgPEJnaPcDamwsmGLLDfU8Wz+FGY3eFA1yzeOyEvtusHyWQMYO+L3IQS YkpWF7FiujJO6wBd4nXsyhB1qgRDeTHJhY71c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IMa27ODvP4IKbe5sCYu/DwP7QzXO84/fOiw0JGCc9yuEe5u6euRtPX3Odfw9h5ru1c 9fA/5NP9lsRqpBbQGI2dlVrKxV66xNlxVh0loqxL9aw9/IEyNn9+KeZRQuUPUGTu1Pui CYoZrZI+OLNSXmsq7vDvCwsXskuZyhIhXbWb0= 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 Received: by 10.231.157.83 with SMTP id a19mr1311824ibx.41.1261109833009; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:17:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> References: <4B2A53F1.6000400@cox.net> <20091217160658.GA26816@princeton.edu> <200912171804.37587.wonko@wonkology.org> <4B2AA0D8.8000101@cox.net> <20091217221655.69beaae5@digimed.co.uk> <4B2AD0AB.4070808@cox.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:17:12 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ec20bda5-b38a-4464-a823-bc0513b72cb0 X-Archives-Hash: 84abf2bf51d0b3c1bef9ef4c59289d9e On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > 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 -> =C2=A0 Bloc= k >>>> devices -> =C2=A0 Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a mo= dule, >>>> 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 Yep... why deal with floppies when you can get a tiny little stick that'll hold about 5688 times as much (8GB), read and write faster, is more portable, and costs about $20 US on Newegg (without shopping around even a little to find one on sale). Windows XP is the last big reason I've dealt with floppy drives in the past 2/3 of a decade or so now, and that's only because the only other option in getting screwy chipset drivers at install time is to rebuild the install media (nforce fake raid on Dell XPSes, more often than not). --=20 Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy