On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > 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?
My mistake. It's been a while since I built a kernel with floppy support. W -- You should approach relationships like chess. And preferably as Deep Blue plays it, or at least as Kasparov. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1105 days, 18:51
