fedora core 4: no fd0u1680?
fedoralist at subtropolix.org
fedoralist at subtropolix.org
Sun Oct 1 11:57:09 UTC 2006
Joe Smith wrote:
> fedoralist at subtropolix.org wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> [root at apollo ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/
>> [root at apollo ~]# ls /media/floppy/
>> ?.? 8v??.?? fp??????.?1? ??syslin.ux ???.u??
>> ????????.??? }???.?b? f?>?tf??.t?? ????????.?t? ???}????.u}?
>> ?.??> ??b?6?t?.??? f!?txf?.? ???????.t?= ???????u
>> ...
>
>
> Dude--you have got to start using more descriptive file names. Seriously.
>
Funny.
> I just looked again and I actually have '/dev/fd0u1680' (and about a
> dozen other 'fd0u' device nodes). I'm using FC5.
>
> I actually gave a talk on udev once, but I'm still no expert. I have a
> summary slide from the talk here:
> http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/hotplug.png (just kidding)
> and some more links here:
> http://www.martnet.com/~jes/CHLUG/HAL_udev_hotplug_links.html,
> although those may be pretty stale by now. The best cookbook-type
> resource is still here: http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
>
> Anyway, I believe the fd0u devices are being created by this rule in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:
> KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{device/cmos}=="*",\
> RUN+="create_floppy_devices -c -t $sysfs{device/cmos} -m %M /dev/%k"
>
> This is actually running a utility, /lib/udev/create_floppy_devices,
> which comes with the udev package.
>
> Sorry I can't give you more specific help but maybe enough clues for a
> good start.
>
> <Joe
>
Some light reading on a sunday morning. I'll check it out. Thanks for
the response.
b
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