From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Fri 17 Aug 2001 - 01:21:35 IST
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:30:10PM +0100, Niall O Broin came forth with:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:49:15PM +0100, John Gay wrote:
> > directory for the workstation and now I could load the module and I get:
> >
> > inserting floppy driver for 2.2.18
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> >
> > Now I check the device files:
> >
> > [ws002 /]# ls -l /dev/fd0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 8 Jul 29 13:35 /dev/fd0 -> /tmp/fd0
> > [ws002 /]# ls -l /tmp/fd0
> > brw-rw-rw- 1 0 0 2, 0 Aug 15 19:51 /tmp/fd0
> > [ws002 /]#
> >
> > but when I try to mount the floppy, it still does not work?
> >
stupid question.. can you do
cat /tmp/fd0 ?
if not, then the floppy driver isn't registering the right devices or isn't
finding a floppy drive.
L.
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