My Floppy drive

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

I don't know how but my floppy device is missing from my /dev folder.
it was working before.

my floppy folder is missing also.
my floppy drive "hardware" is still installed.

Could some please explain how to fix this problem or point me to a tut.
thanks

freshy98 · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

You didn't recently compile a new kernel and disabled or forgot to enable floppy support?
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mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

nope

I did try to use a program that makes floppy disk images
this failed and after that my floppy stop working

freshy98 · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

hmm, a program that throws out all /dev/fd stuff?
so you don't have /dev/fd1440 anymore too for example?
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Monkeywrench · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

Do you use devfsd or udev? And what kernel version are you using?
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mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

thats right those files or dev's are gone

vectox · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Luxembourg

Hmm I have the same problem........and I've had the same problem for quite some time now...since I compiled one of the 2.6.8 kerenls....hard to say which one though....don't use the floppy drive that often and didn't notice it right away.

Currently I'm using 2.6.9-gentoo-r1

Mounting /dev/fd0u1440 /floppy resolved the problem for me.

It used to be just /dev/fd0 for me, but obviously they changed that.

Monkeywrench · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:52 am Post subject:

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

I'm sorry I believe it is devfsd im going to try what he did

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

it didn't work

I changed my /etc/fstab to

/dev/fd0u1722 /mnt/floppy

I checked my /dev Dir and I found a fd0u1722 I did notice that
all my other Dev's are a sim link to another dir but this one didn't
maybe thats why It didn't work.