Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: > I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was > one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE > chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted. > > Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every entry there (0, 1, 2, and 255) > are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs:
That's correct.
> # dmesg|grep -i floppy
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from
> something in /dev/fd?
Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries
in /dev for your IDE Floppy device. Read some more lines in your dmesg
output.
HTH...
Dirk
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