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rubing
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 Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: floppy fd0 not recognized |
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| I just installed gentoo off the LiveCD onto an Dell GX240. I can't seem to access my floppy. I inserted a 3.5 that was formatted on xp and tried mounting it as ntfs, but nothing happened. When i insert a disk I don't even hear the typical whirring start up noises. |
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Janne Pikkarainen
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: Re: floppy fd0 not recognized |
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| rubing wrote: | | I just installed gentoo off the LiveCD onto an Dell GX240. I can't seem to access my floppy. I inserted a 3.5 that was formatted on xp and tried mounting it as ntfs, but nothing happened. When i insert a disk I don't even hear the typical whirring start up noises. |
... and the floppy drive is physically connected ...? 
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rubing
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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extremely connected  I can boot from it or use in XP |
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tmasscool
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't you forget to add floppy disk support in your kernel ?
try :
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if it is not set, you have to activate it in the kernel...
Is your ntfs driver loaded ? |
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rubing
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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when i type the zgrep command, it outputs the following line:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
so, i can load it as a module with modprobe? |
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tmasscool
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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yes you can load it :
don't forget to check if the ntfs is loaded
if you want to be able to write on an ntfs disk, you need to install ntfs3g...
Now when the ntfs and floppy modules are loaded, you should be able to mount the floppy disk |
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