Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 03:36:16 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.34-bk floppy weirdness |
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address > >[tmolina@dad testfloppystable]$ su > >Password: > >[root@dad testfloppystable]# dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 > >2880+0 records in > >2880+0 records out > > My 2.5.34 (proper, not bk) doesn't have this misbehaviour. > > Are you building the floppy driver as a module and relying > on kmod+modutils to insert it on demand? If so, you may be > seeing the same problem I was when I upgraded my user-space > to RedHat 7.3: dd of=/dev/fd0 as a user won't load floppy.o. > See RedHat bug id 65685 for details.
You are exactly right. The floppy driver is built as a module. I'll refer to the bugzilla and add a comment if needed. Since this is a RedHat-specific symptom I'll handle it through them.
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