On Jun 19, 2011, at 04:59 , Yasha Karant wrote: > I have installed lshw. lshw does seem to give an extensive listing, but > lshw-gui does not seem to give much. As with lshw, does lshw-gui need to be > run by root? > > Also, I have a real 1.44 Mbyte floppy drive installed that goes to the floppy > drive controller on the mother board (this particular MSI motherboard has > SATA, EIDE, and floppy controllers and connectors on the motherboard). It > worked fine under RHEL 5 (CentOS 5.6) on this motherboard. Under RHEL 6 (SL > 6), I find: > > ls -la /dev/fd/* > ls: cannot access /dev/fd/255: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access /dev/fd/3: No such file or directory > lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/0 -> /dev/pts/0 > lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/1 -> /dev/pts/0 > lrwx------. 1 ykarant ykarant 64 Jun 18 19:49 /dev/fd/2 -> /dev/pts/0s > > but I cannot seem to access these via a mount, even as root, to access a > MS-DOS floppy. Obviously, I am doing something wrong, but what? Moreover, > the mtools (that provides MS-DOS compatibility) used to access the floppy > drive as A: but now does nothing. Presumably, once I understand how to > access the floppy drive, things will work. Would a ln -s /dev/floppy to > /dev/fd/0 as well as a ln -s /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd/0 work?
Probably not ;-) Try "echo 'I am not a floppy drive' > /dev/fd/1" for a hint what these actually are. > Note that the output of lshw does not show the floppy drive, although the > hardware listing utility of RHEL 5 did show this. This is the same hardware > with no change to the motherboard BIOS -- the motherboard BIOS utility does > show the floppy. Do floppy devices appear after "modprobe floppy"? > I realize that this might have to be re-done upon the next upgrade (to SL > 6.1), but otherwise should work until /dev is overwritten. It's created at boot time. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
