You probably need to do a 'modprobe ide-floppy'. I actually tried putting 'hdc=ide-floppy' on the append line in lilo, but that didn't work for me. I don't use it very often, so I didn't play with it anymore; I just do the modprobe whenever I need floppy access.
HTH Jim On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:40, Igor Izyumin wrote: > On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:32 pm, hans privat wrote: > > hi, > > have a little problem in understanding the following: > > have an LS-120 drive. > > in dmesg I can see it as a hdc, which would be correct. In the file > > /etc/fstab I can see again as an entry : floppy on /dev/hdc ... options > > i.e. > > > > but in /dev I doesn't have an entry hdc@ - all what I can see here are : > > hda@ up to hda11@, hdb@ up to hdb6@ and hdd@ which also have a correct > > entry to /dev/cdrom (is a link;) > > > > think for this reason I see a "closed floppy" in konqueror or nautilus. > > does anyone know, how I can do the trick, that the "LS-120" can be used > > as a floppy, mounted on /dev/hdc ? > > > > thanks for your ideas and helps > > bye hans > You might want to try accessing it with /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part. > -- > -- Igor > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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