/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Apr 9 20:17:22 UTC 2004
Matt Morgan wrote:
> Thanks to Rick and James!
>
> I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow
> Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable
> backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe
> it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to plug
> the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is,
> hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).
It saw the floppy _controller_, not the drive.
> James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 99%
> of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had tried to
> plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I decided to
> try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have very, very
> few. Thanks.
I think James meant a floppy disk, not the drive.
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