Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: > On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote: > > 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: > > /dev/fd is a symlink to /dev/self/fd > > and I believe that fd here means "file descriptor" not "floppy disk" > > do you have devices /dev/fd0 etc instead? If not, what do you get from > > grep -r fd /etc/udev/rules.d/
We're talking IDE floppy here, not floppy. That's /dev/hd*
vs. /dev/floppy/*.
Bye...
Dirk
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