Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed May 7 14:36:12 PDT 2003
In the last episode (May 07), Aleksandar Antok said:
> Hello everybody,
> ?
> How can I get floppy drive work under FreeBSD 5.0. I have read in the
> handbook that I should use MAKEDEV, but I can't find it anywhere. In the /
> dev directory I have "fd" directory(and the files "0", "1", "2"). I cannot
> mount that(/dev/fd/0). Please help me or send me MAKEDEV.
> ?
/dev/fd/* refers to filedescriptors. You probably want /dev/fd0, which
should be automatically created if you have a floppy drive. MAKEDEV is
not needed in 5.0.
Make sure you have "device fdc" in your kernel config file.
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Dan Nelson
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