[ltp] Floppy drive setup on thinkpad 600e redhat7.0

aquanes linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:54:09 -0500 

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I would appreciate if somebody could tell me how to setup the floppy
drive on a thinkpad 600e running redhat7.0 and a 2.4.0 kernel.
Currently I have been able to make it work on 2.2.16-22 but with the
kernel 2.4.0 I have the following error: wrong major or minor number on
dev/fd0.
1-In my lilo.conf file I added the line append = "floppy=thinkpad" as
specifed in the Floppy.txt documentation,but that did not make any
difference.
2-I removed dev/fdo and created a symbolic link to dev/fdH1440 with no
success.
3-recreated the dev/fd0 with mknod fd0 b 2 0 and since I have the
message:
        dev/fdo:Block device not defined with both kernel 2.2.16 and
2.4.0 this time.

Any advice is more than welcome.

Thanks

Cyril



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I would appreciate if somebody could tell me how to setup the floppy drive
on a thinkpad 600e running redhat7.0 and a 2.4.0 kernel.
<br>Currently I have been able to make it work on 2.2.16-22 but with the
kernel 2.4.0 I have the following error: <b>wrong major or minor number
on dev/fd0.</b>
<br>1-In my lilo.conf file I added the line append = "floppy=thinkpad"
as specifed in the Floppy.txt documentation,but that did not make any difference.
<br>2-I removed dev/fdo and created a symbolic link to dev/fdH1440 with
no success.
<br>3-recreated the dev/fd0 with mknod fd0 b 2 0 and since I have the message:
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>&nbsp; dev/fdo:Block device
not defined </b>with both kernel 2.2.16 and 2.4.0 this time.
<p>Any advice is more than welcome.
<p>Thanks
<p>Cyril
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