Getting devfs to recognize a hotplugged fd0

Ed Schouten ed at il.fontys.nl
Sat Nov 27 11:23:49 PST 2004


Hello Patrick,

Patrick Bowen wrote:
> I'm trying to learn how to get devfs to create an fd0 enty in /dev 
> automatically when I plug a floppy drive into the serial port of a 
> running Dell D600 laptop running 6.0 current.

Are you sure that's possible at all? You know the serial port isn't
plug-and-play? How can the operating system tell that there is something on
the serial port at all? :)

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at il.fontys.nl>
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