Hi to everybody,
I moved from MDK 7.1 to MDK 8.1 by reinstalling everything.
I have a scsi computer but I also have a spcial ide device (LS120 120Mb floppy
drive) which was automatically recognized by MDK 7.1.
At boot of my new 8.1 system the device is recognized as before, since at
boot I receive the message:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hdb: LS-120 F200 08 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdb: No disk in drive
hdb: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm
The device has also been declared in the automatically built
/etc/fstab file:
/dev/sda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
But when I try to mount the device I receive the message:
mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist
Indeed the file /dev/hdb does not exist!
I see that in MDK 8.1 the organization of the directory /dev has changed
a lot with respect to 7.1, now all devices declared in /dev are symbolic
links,
but I have not found ide devices even in the /dev/ide subdirectory.
Have you suggestions?
Thank you
Renato Tognaccini
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