/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[Matt Morgan]

On 04/09/2004 04:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Matt Morgan wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Rick and James!
>>
>> I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow 
>> Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable 
>> backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe 
>> it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to 
>> plug the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is, 
>> hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).
>
>
> It saw the floppy _controller_, not the drive.

But the controller might have been controlling and kind of floppy drive, 
and it was telling me I had a 3.5" 1.44Mb HD floppy, so it was 
interpolating somewhat.

>
>> James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 
>> 99% of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had 
>> tried to plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I 
>> decided to try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have 
>> very, very few. Thanks.
>
>
> I think James meant a floppy disk, not the drive.

Makes sense, thanks.