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netcetera
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 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: [SOLVED} Laptop Floppy "light" is on constantly. |
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I just installed gentoo using the livecd - pretty slick actually...
I switched from a genkernel to a custom one and I can't get the floppy light to go out. dmesg indicates that the floppy is found and no other glaring errors appear.
Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this ?
Oh, lappy is an older Toshiba, 1800 , PIII 850 , nothing fancy, apm support only I think.
Thanx
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calle2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I fixed this by compiling the floppy support as a module and loading it on boot.
You can try
from the command line. If this fixes the problem, just put it into the autoload file.
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zbindere
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| If you plug the floppy drive wrong you have that effect. |
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Primozic
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| zbindere wrote: | | If you plug the floppy drive wrong you have that effect. |
Slimline floppy drives have a different type of connector.
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netcetera
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OOPSI !!! 
I had the wrong floppy drivers builtin to the kernel...
I had IDE/ATAPI Floppy support builtin and needed Block Devices ---->> Normal Floppy Disk Support
instead.
Thanks for the replies.
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