Willie Wong writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner > squawked: > > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the > > /dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block > > device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I > > doing wrong? > > You are using udev, I assume? Did you compile the IDE floppy support > into your kernel?
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, maybe you just need to modprobe floppy? Wonko