Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread sebastian . rother
Hello everybody, I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/. I noticed it during I tried to boot a floppy. 1. I checked the FD-Device # dmesg | grep fd fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask fff5 netmask fffd ttymask fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask fff5 netmask fffd ttymask

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Monday 05 September 2005 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/. I noticed it during I tried to boot a floppy. fdc(4) is the floppy controller. If you read the manpage, you'll discover that the floppy *drive* is /dev/fd[0-3][A-H][a-p] Try

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Antti Nykänen
On 2005-09-05 at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/. I noticed it during I tried to boot a floppy. You probably want to access a floppy drive, which are called fd*, not fdc*. From fdc(4): The standard names of a floppy drive will take the form

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Kahari
Try actually reading that manual on fdc as well. It says: The standard names of a floppy drive will take the form /dev/fd{0,1,2,3}{,B,C,D,E,F,G,H}[a-p]. Cheers, Andreas On 05/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/.

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread sebastian . rother
On Monday 05 September 2005 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/. I noticed it during I tried to boot a floppy. fdc(4) is the floppy controller. If you read the manpage, you'll discover that the floppy *drive* is /dev/fd[0-3][A-H][a-p]

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Monday 05 September 2005 21:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I guess the floppy-controler on an ASUS K7V880 is noticed but not used. Simpler than that; the floppy controller appears to have no drives attached from the PoV of the

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Fred Crowson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I've noticed that fdc isn't in /dev/. I noticed it during I tried to boot a floppy. fdc(4) is the floppy controller. If you read the manpage, you'll discover that the floppy *drive* is

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
floppys are not supported on amd. Has been in the archives for ages. If you had included the dmesg as you are supposed to you would not have been wasting everyones time (as usual). Art wrote a nice rant about why not a few weeks ago. On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:23:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Monday 05 September 2005 23:47, Marco Peereboom wrote: floppys are not supported on amd. Has been in the archives for ages. If you had included the dmesg as you are supposed to you would not have been wasting everyones time (as usual). Art wrote a nice rant about why not a few weeks ago.

Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev)

2005-09-05 Thread John Brooks
Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antti Nykdnen Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 2:52 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy problems... (fdc missing in /dev) On 2005-09-05 at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED