Floppy drive not responding.

[Lorenzo Luengo]

Karl F. Larsen escribió:
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> HermanAA wrote:
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>> my (newly added) floppy does not show up.
>> Cannot mount drive ... seems to be the problem.
>> The floppy drive is working under WINdows.
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>> I must be doing something wrong in the setup.
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>> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount /dev/fd0
>> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>> ...
>> looking around:
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>> ls -l /dev/f*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        13 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd
>> -> /proc/self/fd
>> brw-rw----  1 root floppy  2,   0 2009-06-26 23:15 /dev/fd0
>>     

did you make sure that you belong to the "floppy" group?

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Lorenzo Luengo Contreras
Ingeniero Civil Electrónico
Laboratorio MIDGEO (LF-106)
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción - Chile
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