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: # dmesg|grep -i floppy ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide # uname -r 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 # cd /dev/fd; ls -al total 0 dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jun 3 02:32 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jun 3 02:32 .. lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 0 -> /dev/pts/0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 1 -> /dev/pts/0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 2 -> /dev/pts/0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 3 02:32 255 -> /dev/pts/0 # ls -al /dev/fd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 2 20:35 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from something in /dev/fd? -Tim -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
