On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from > > something in /dev/fd? > > Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries > in /dev for your IDE Floppy device. Read some more lines in your > dmesg output.
Is this another change introduced by libata? I can't remember the last time I actually used a floppy on Gentoo... RHEL still uses /dev/fd{0,1} so I imagine this is a back-port they have done? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list