Re: [Nolug] "dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"

Andrew S. Johnson wrote:

>On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:38 am, John D. Tiedeman wrote:
>
>
>>Kevin Kreamer wrote:
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>>
>>
>>>"John D. Tiedeman" <jdtiede@sstar.com> writes:
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>>>
>>>>>Boot a copy of Knoppix or even an old dos disk (www.freedos.org,
>>>>>www.bootdisk.com) and see if the floppy drive works, to determine for
>>>>>
>>>>>
>sure
>
>
>>>>>if it's a hardware or software problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>As far as networking the computers, post a few more details and i'm sure
>>>>>you'll get a lot of help from this list.
>>>>>
>>>>>ray
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>I ran ls -l on /dev/fd0 and got the same message you show, except of
>>>>course for the date. I couldn't find one of the probably half dozen
>>>>spare floppy cables I should have around here so swapped cables with
>>>>the other computer. Same result; it still thinks dev/fd0 isn't a valid
>>>>block device. And it doesn't show up on the Disk Management tool,
>>>>which is what I usually use to mount my CD drive. On the other
>>>>computer, the floppy will mount from that tool.
>>>>
>>>>I'm splitting the networking question into a separate thread.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This is probably not the problem, but Murphy says you should check it
>>>anyway. Be sure that support for floppies is either compiled into
>>>your kernel or is loaded, if compiled as a module.
>>>
>>>Kevin
>>>
>>>
>
># modprobe floppy
>
>Should get something like this at the end of dmesg:
>
>inserting floppy driver for 2.6.4
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
>
>You should also see something like this somewhere in lsmod:
>
># lsmod
>Module Size Used by
>floppy 60916 0
>
>Andy Johnson
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modprobe floppy brought up nothing, and lsmod didn't list anything
pertinent.
I ran /sbin/insmod floppy and it claimed it was using such-and-such a
module, but when I tried modprobe floppy afterward, I still got nothing.

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