Re: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

From: Rick Stevens (rstevens_at_vitalstream.com)
Date: 04/09/04

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    Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:17:22 -0700
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    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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