From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:41:08 +0000 Subject: Floppy on some UltraAX/UltraAXi boxes Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hi! Just to let you know, on some UltraAX/AXi boxes the single floppy drive you have is unit 1 and not 0 (B: and not A: in DOS terms). To get that working, you have to use recent kernel (e.g. from CVS), plus it will be accessible through /dev/fd1 and not /dev/fd0 as you might expect. If you have a recent kernel, the boot messages will tell you correctly Floppy drive(s): fd1 is 1.44M So if that is your case (if your floppy does not work and prtconf -pv shows you something like: .... Node 0x???????? manual: unit: 00000001 address: ????????.????????.???????? device_type: 'block' interrupts: ???????? reg: ????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.????????.???????? name: 'fdthree' .... (the unit: 1 is important), then upgrade your kernel. I'll be making kernel RPMS really soon, once some bug is fixed. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.121 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________