On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:52, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > Patrick Bowen wrote: > > I'm trying to learn how to get devfs to create an fd0 enty in /dev > > automatically when I plug a floppy drive into the serial port of a > > running Dell D600 laptop running 6.0 current. > > Are you sure that's possible at all? You know the serial port isn't > plug-and-play? How can the operating system tell that there is something on > the serial port at all? :) I would guess he means USB when he says serial. I imagine the floppy drive appears as da0 in -current. Perhaps it worked as fd0 in 4.x with heavy (HEAVY) BIOS magic.. Also he could be parallel when he says serial... Patrik - how many pins does the port in question have? What model laptop is it? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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