/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[Rick Stevens]

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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