Re: Bug#273890: udev doesn't create all nodes necessary for floppy-drives
reassign 273890 kfloppy
retitle 273890 kfloppy should use FDSETPRM instead of /dev/fd?[dhu]*
thanks
On Sep 29, Roman Kreisel <roman.kreisel@web.de> wrote:
I have found the interface, it's documented in
/usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html. I also see in the superformat man
page that only /dev/fd0 is actually needed.
I'm reassigning this bug to kfloppy.
> > Why can't kfloppy use the IOCTL interface?
>
> I don't know much about this interface, but from what i found using google, i
> tried "mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0/H1440", but that didn't work, either.
>
> I grepped through the kfloppy-sourcecode (although i'm not really a coder) and
> found out, that on BSD kfloppy just uses /dev/fdX, wouldn't this be OK for
> Linux, too? Is it really necessary to use /dev/fd0{h,u}{720,1440,...}? Since
> those files don't exist anymore and fdformat seems to work with /dev/fd0,
> too, why not use this in general?
>
> Maybe this bug should be reassigned against kfloppy.
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ciao, |
Marco | [8288 abGC3gX0cEzwA]
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