Re: Floppy in 2.6

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:20:54 +0100 Jakub Krajcovic <news.receive@zoznam.sk> wrote:

| Hi everybody, this might be a stupid question, but here goes anyway:
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| I've been using the 2.6 test kernels from when -test4 was released, but only today have i noticed that my floppy drive is nowhere to be found.
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| I've checked the in the menu for the kernel config (make menuconfig) and i did not find the  "block devices > normal floppy support" option (as it was called in the 2.4 kernels) anywhere, and there is no /dev/fd0 on my system.

It's the first item listed under Block devices: Normal floppy disk support

It won't be listed for PC9800 or S/390 hardware.

| In 2.4 there was the option for "normal floppy support" and I have the /dev/fd0 device for my floppy when I boot the old 2.4.22 kernel. So my question is: does the 2.6 kernel support normal floppy disks or not? And if it does, how do I enable this support in order to use my floppy drive.

Yes.  What kind of system hardware?
Check for "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD" in the .config file.

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~Randy