On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But when I tried > > ls /dev/fd0 > > it told me > > > > ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory > > > > Indeed, ls /dev says > > > [ its not there ] > > Where is my floppy drive? > > > > Are you running a plain /dev/ or do you use udev or devfs or something? > > If plain /dev, then something has deleted the node. Make it again, > block, major 2, minor 0 > > If udev, then the module for your floppy drive is not inserted so it > doesn't know about the floppy drive so it doesn't make a node. In this > case, use modconf and find the module.
Thanks. It turned out that the 'floppy' kernel module was missing. -- hendrik > > For testing, put a scratch disk in the drive then after each change, try > to format the disk. > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
