Hi Everyone,
Quick question on a situation that I had today with building a new kernel
on a machine at work (inside corporate firewall with no access to internet so
impossible to grab log files etc.).
Anyways this machine has a combination LS-120/3.5" floppy drive (ATAPI/
IDE) recognized as:
Model: LS-120 VER4 07 UHD Floppy
Device: /dev/hdb
Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE
My problem stems from the fact that the drive gets mounted as /dev/hdb
and I am trying to setup VMware 2.x to create a Win98SE virtual machine.
VMware can't find the floppy drive because there is no /dev/fd0. I have
attempted to change the VMware config to /dev/hdb but still no go. I can
mount the drive (e.g. mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/floppy) and see all the
files fine so the drive is fully functional under Mandrake 7.1. There are
some errors that keep showing up in the logs about different filesizes (will
look closer tomorrow) but I didn't pay too much attention to them given that
I could mount the floppy properly.
Anyone got any thoughts/ideas/suggestions on this type of problem. I
have posted it to the vmware newsgroup but have yet to receive an answer.
Are there special kernel options I need to build in so that I can have a
block device for /dev/fd0 or is this even necessary.
Thanks in advance. Cheers.
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