From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261752AbTJ1WmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:42:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261754AbTJ1WmP (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:42:15 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:40633 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261752AbTJ1WmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:42:14 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Floppy in 2.6 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:42:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20031028232054.1d452baa.news.receive@zoznam.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3pfvIXZJvkT0VNAEe3QO3HL5Ssk= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jakub Krajcovic writes: > 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. It's there. In menuconfig it's "Device Drivers" -> "Block devices" -> "Normal floppy disk support". Who uses floppy disks nowadays, anyway? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se