On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I
doing wrong?
You are using udev, I assume? Did you compile the IDE floppy support
into your kernel?
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?). I enabled it, rebuilt, rebooted, and now it works.
Thanks guys!
Marcus
