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Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)



On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:13:33PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
 I'm using Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) loaded from a CD set that was
 burnt in January 2002 which should be up to date and stable.  I used
 the installation screens to load it.

That should not make a difference. This is a kernel-level issue. Did you
build your own kernel image from the nubus-pmac tree? Or are you using a
stock prebuilt kernel from nubus-pmac.sf.net?

I downloaded the standard Mach_Kernel from http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/


 > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Mar 22 12:06 fd0

Yes, the device node major/minor number pair is correct.

 > and no fd doesn't show up in /proc/devices

This means one of two things:
  - If you built a custom kernel, you may have not built the SWIM3
    floppy controller driver into the kernel.
  - The system you're running Linux on may have a SWIM2 floppy
    controller (which is not yet supported) or another that I'm ignorant
    of.


How can I tell what the floppy is?

Thanks

Clive

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