Re: mounting floppy disk

[Daniel González Gasull <gasull@altavista.net>]

Hi!

Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au> wrote:

> Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull:
> > > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0:
> > >
> > >         # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > >         mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device
> > >                (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> 
> Jens B. Jorgensen:
> > This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? What
> > do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'?
> 
> And what do you get for 'ls -l /dev/fd0'?
> 
> I get:
>   brw-rw----   1 root     floppy     2,   0 Apr 13 20:16 /dev/fd0
> 
> The important bits in that are the "b" at the beginning and the "2, 0" in
> the middle.
> 
> You will get a different date and time - that's normal.

Then everything is OK:

	# ls -l /dev/fd0
	brw-rw----   1 root     floppy     2,   0 oct 12  1997 /dev/fd0

Thanx in advance for your help.

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