fedora core 4: no fd0u1680?

[fedoralist at subtropolix.org]

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