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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