[PLUG] floppy problem

[Russell Evans]

If it is an LS-120 then the /dev/fd0 isn't correct. Depending where on the IDE
bus the drive is, it will be /dev/hdX. My guess, if you have an IDE hard drive
based box; the hard drive will be hda, the CDR will be hdc, and the ide-loppy
will be hdd. 

If you can, you should move the ide-floppy to its own channel because it is a
slow device. Any faster drive, 66, 100, 133 MHz device on the same channel,
will have to run at 33MHz.

Thank you
Russell


On 02 Feb 2003 08:01:43 -0800, Dirk Ouellette said:

> If my bios recognizes the /dev/fd0, if during init
>  
>  Feb  1 23:48:26 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
>  then;
>  Feb  1 23:48:02 localhost updfstab: unexpected file type for /dev/fd0
>  Feb  1 23:48:02 localhost kudzu: Updating /etc/fstab failed
>  
>  and if I try; 
>   mount /dev/fd0
>  mount: /dev/fd0 is not a block device (maybe try `-o loop'?)
>  
>  and /etc/fstab is;
>  defaults        0 0
>  /dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1            
>  iso9660noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>  /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto   
>  noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>   and the floppy works in another machine, what does it all mean? Is life