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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!aero.org!negaard
- From: negaard@aero.org (Eric Negaard)
- Subject: Re: /dev/fd1 not detected
- In-Reply-To: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09: 03:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <NEGAARD.92Jul29085425@fungus.aero.org>
- Sender: news@aero.org
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
- References: <NEGAARD.92Jul27122123@fungus.aero.org>
- <1992Jul28.090311.23301@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:54:25 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- >>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:03:11 GMT, almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) said:
-
- almesber> In article <NEGAARD.92Jul27122123@fungus.aero.org> negaard@aero.org (Eric Negaard) writes:
- > Linux doesn't seem to recognize my /dev/fd1 properly.
- >
- > It correctly identifies fd0 at boot time (fd0 is 1.2M), and the second
- > (1.44M) drive works if I create /dev/PS1, it's only the auto-detecting
- > driver that doesn't seem to work.
-
- almesber> At boot time, the floppy driver prints whatever is configured in the
- almesber> CMOS setup. When using the auto-detecting floppy devices, this
- almesber> information determines what formats are tried.
-
- almesber> So your CMOS setup is probably wrong. You should boot into the setup
- almesber> program and define your B: as a 1.44MB drive.
-
- Well, my CMOS is set up correctly (I just double-checked this morning). Linux
- must not be reading the CMOS values right on my machine. The BIOS is:
- "Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS 0.10 G21-2"
-
- Eric Negaard
-