Hi Chris I've just included you on my Christmas list, As soon as I hit enter after 'sudo modprobe floppy' the LED light came on briefly and it now reads the floppy disk. It is also in the Places as 1.5MB Media. So far so good, should I now run 'echo floppy|sudo tee -a /etc/modules' and reboot? Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Morley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 October 2008 10:00 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive you have to use 'sudo modprobe floppy' and then type in your password ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:56:03 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive > > Hi Chris > I ran 'modprobe floppy' and it comes up with exactly the same as at > "01:36:00" Fatal ...etc > Then ran 'dmesg' but no where does it mention floppy drive, I see DVD, CD, > USB - no floppy. > The DVD CD and USB do work just not the floppy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Morley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 October 2008 09:08 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive > > > Hey Dave > I read this just recently on irc > 01:35:15 if you run 'modprobe floppy' what does it do? > 01:35:47 err sorry, 'sudo modprobe floppy' > 01:36:00 FATAL: Error inserting floppy > (/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-rtai/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): Operation not > permitted > 01:36:14 is that with the sudo? > 01:36:50 No, that was prior to sudo. Using sudo I got nothing back. > 01:37:02 now type 'dmesg' and look at the last few lines > 01:37:55 [ 4792.744855] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > 01:37:55 [ 4792.762348] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > 01:38:05 nifty > 01:38:10 does it show up in the gnome menu now? > 01:38:32 Yes! Will is stay there after reboot? > 01:38:43 I don't think so > 01:38:46 does it work? > 01:39:35 Okay. So how do I get it to persist? > 01:39:47 does it work? > 01:40:16 Yes, it does work. > 01:40:41 carefully run 'echo floppy|sudo tee -a /etc/modules' > 01:40:56 I think that will tell it to load at boot time > 01:41:06 then I guess reboot/retry > 01:41:26 I presume I leave off the single quotes and just type the > characters between them, right? > 01:41:31 yes > > Chris Morley > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kirk Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 26 October 2008 08:09 PM >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive >> >> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 19:17 +0200, Dave Houghton wrote: >>> Hello All >>> >>> I am very new to all this, I've looked around all the >> ... snip >>> I even >>> tried to read FSTAB, didn't help much mainly because I have no idea >>> what it is talking about. So if anyone out there could help this silly >>> old fool I would be most grateful. Please also note that my computer >>> sense is small and limited to basic and simple instructions. >>> >> > _________________________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
