[gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
Michael Sullivan wrote: How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... I usually just look around in there and find it. I use udev, I assume you do to, and this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /dev/fd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 23 15:45 /dev/fd0 - floppy/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # So if you don't have the link, it should be /dev/floppy/0 that is the floppy drive. Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out what HTH was. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to address it... I usually just look around in there and find it. I use udev, I assume you do to, and this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /dev/fd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 23 15:45 /dev/fd0 - floppy/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # So if you don't have the link, it should be /dev/floppy/0 that is the floppy drive. Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out what HTH was. LOL Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On 1/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! Does dmesg indicate the kernel is finding a floppy drive? Did you configure your kernel with floppy support? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On Monday 30 January 2006 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory Check for /dev/floppy/0 (note: floppy is a folder) If neither /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy/0 exist then verify the drive is valid via bios setup. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out what HTH was. LOL # emerge wtf $ wtf hth HTH: hope this helps (PS, sorry to hijack the thread :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. -- Barrie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
Michael Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! I should have thought of the new to Linux factor. /dev/floppy is only a link to /dev/floppy/0. Just like /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/input/mouse0 for me. There are a lot of things that are only links. Even if the /dev/fd0 was there and the /dev/floppy/0 was not, it would not work. Look in dmesg for something like this: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old. O_O Oh, to get dmesg, just go to a terminal and type in dmesg. If you don't want to search through it, type in dmesg | grep fd0 and see what it says. Leave out the quotes though. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 -0600, Dale wrote: Look in dmesg for something like this: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old. post means after - so if this is your dmesg output, yours was made after 1991. (If the date is in fact referring to the floppy hardware) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! -- Wm. Shakespeare, Henry VI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to find floppy drive [SOLVED]
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/30/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! Does dmesg indicate the kernel is finding a floppy drive? Did you configure your kernel with floppy support? -Richard My kernel had floppy drive support, but it was compiled as a module. Once I discovered that, I modprobed it and now it works. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
