On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:28 PM, inurneck <inurneck_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I Can't seem to get my floppy recognized by the kernel. It is in fact a > stripped kernel, I previously took a lot of things out of it, but i have > added all I believe I need. The system sees the controller but never probes > for an actual drive. I *re*added the options > # Floppy drive. > device atapifd # For floppy support. > device eisa # For floppy support. > device ata # For floppy support. > device fdc # Floppy drive controller. > > > If I read correctly rthat's what the handbook said was needed. but when the > system boots all I get is > > > [142]daemon[/daemon/kernel]: dmesg | grep fdc > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: [FILTER] > [143]daemon[/daemon/kernel]: My first reaction: are you sure it's a regular floppy and not a USB device? Check to see if 'daX' shows up in /dev (where X is an integer). > And in dev all I see relevant is the directory structure: fd>0>1>2 > I'd appreciate your help, what is the minimum things I need in my kernel > config for it to see the floppy, and if I already do have them, why isn't it > probing for it? Lastly what can I do to debug this? I am not one to ask > questions I usually google, and did but all I seem to be getting is > irrelevant information about installation from floppies. Thank you so much. 'fd' is not floppy disk here. It's "file descriptor" ... /dev/fd/X is how you might access your own open file descriptors if you so desired. /dev/fd0 is not related to /dev/fd/0.Received on Mon Jan 25 2010 - 03:03:59 UTC
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