On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:11:45AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I have noticed for quite some time that if use the > ide-floppy driver instead of ide-scsi to access my > Powermac's ide zip drive that the device is not created > unless media is in the drive at boot time. This is with > Debian sid and devfs in use. Does anyone else see this > same behavior? Also is this a Powermac specific issue > or does it happen on intel as well? This is on the > linux 2.4.xx kernels.
It's because ide-floppy doesn't do devfs. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
