On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
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?
I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled
(by default! why?).
For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by
default.
But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do
things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence?
Marcus
