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

From: Matt Morgan (matt.morgan-fedora-list_at_brooklynmuseum.org)
Date: 04/09/04

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    On 04/09/2004 04:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

    > 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.

    But the controller might have been controlling and kind of floppy drive,
    and it was telling me I had a 3.5" 1.44Mb HD floppy, so it was
    interpolating somewhat.

    >
    >> 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.

    Makes sense, thanks. 

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