Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote:
>> I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was
>> one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my
>> IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted.
>>
>> Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every entry there (0, 1, 2, and
>> 255) are all symlinks to /dev/pts/0. Relevant command outputs:
>
> /dev/fd is a symlink to /dev/self/fd
>
> and I believe that fd here means "file descriptor" not "floppy disk"
>
> do you have devices /dev/fd0 etc instead? If not, what do you get from
>
I do not.
> grep -r fd /etc/udev/rules.d/
>
produces:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-libsane.rules:SYSFS{idVendor}=="06bd",
SYSFS{idProduct}=="20fd", MODE="660", GROUP="scanner"
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules:KERNEL=="ram*|loop*|fd*|nbd*|gnbd*|dm-*|md*",
GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*",
NAME="floppy/%k", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="floppy"
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", ACTION=="add",
ATTRS{cmos}=="*", RUN+="create_floppy_devices -c -t $attr{cmos} -m %M -M
0660 -G floppy $root/floppy/%k"
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", ACTION=="remove",
RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'rm -f $root/floppy/%k?*'"
-Tim
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