Alan McKinnon wrote:
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
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs:
That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy
connected to, then?
Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device?
Bye...
Dirk
I was unaware there was a difference.
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from
something in /dev/fd?
Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries
in /dev for your IDE Floppy
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim:
I was unaware there was a difference. It's a 34-pin ribbon cable
connector on the motherboard.
Yes, that's a normal PC floppy device. You need CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD.
Bye...
Dirk
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On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Is this another change introduced by libata?
No. IDE floppies are a different kind of device, IOmega Zip is one
example. They are attached to an IDE controller, just like a hard
disk or CDRom drive.
OK, that explains everything. I've never ever
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.
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim:
Nothing there either.
# dmesg|grep -i hd
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD400BB-23DEA0, ATA DISK
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from
something in /dev/fd?
Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries
in /dev for your IDE Floppy device. Read some more lines in your
dmesg output.
Is
Tim wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs:
That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy
connected to, then?
Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device?
Bye...
Dirk
I was unaware there was a
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim:
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
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim:
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
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
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
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs:
That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy
connected to, then?
Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device?
Bye...
Dirk
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Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408
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