Re: Floppy not configured (again!)

[Igmar Palsenberg <palsenberg tebenet nl>]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> So I had this problem recently with RH6.0 where mtools and dd would
> fail to work with /dev/fd0, saying that the device was "not
> configured".  Somebody (sorry, don't recall who) suggested using
> /dev/fd0h1440 instead, and that seemd to be OK for a while, but now
> that has also ceased to work!
> 
> Examples of problems:
> 
>         [root yankee images]# dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0h1440 bs=72k
>         dd: /dev/fd0h1440: Device not configured
> 
>         [root yankee images]# mdir a:
>         Can't open /dev/fd0H1440: Device not configured
>         Cannot initialize 'A:'
> 
> Mounting the floppy on /mnt/floppy seems to work, but it shouldn't
> be necessary and it doesn't solve the dd problem anyway.

Hmmm. Looks like you /dev/ entries got screwed somehow...

Try in /dev :

./MAKEDEV fd


Also check the kernel boot messages for anything regarding the fd

> So what am I doing wrong now?  And how do I "configure" a floppy drive?
> I could swear this used to work with 5.2...

Really strange.....
 
> Thanks for any hints.  At the moment, it seems that I have to boot
> into WINDOWS to use my floppy drive.  Bah!.

I always get depressed by booting Windows :-))

> 
>                 Matthew Saltzman
>                 Clemson University Math Sciences
>                 mjs clemson edu
>                 http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




		Igmar