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Re: /dev/fd0 gone



On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:58:58PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>  
> > But when I tried
> > 	ls /dev/fd0
> > it told me
> > 
> > ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Indeed, ls /dev says
> > 
> [ its not there ] 
> > Where is my floppy drive?
> >
> 
> Are you running a plain /dev/ or do you use udev or devfs or something?
> 
> If plain /dev, then something has deleted the node.  Make it again,
>  	block, major 2, minor 0
> 
> If udev, then the module for your floppy drive is not inserted so it
> doesn't know about the floppy drive so it doesn't make a node.  In this
> case, use modconf and find the module.

Thanks.  It turned out that the 'floppy' kernel module was missing.

-- hendrik
 
> 
> For testing, put a scratch disk in the drive then after each change, try
> to format the disk.  
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 
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