On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:35:17PM -0400, mark wrote:
ls -l /dev/fd?
What do you see?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd/
Interesting as that doesn't match the pattern /dev/fd?
And, while we're at it, ll of /dev/floppy shows
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/floppy -> fd0
fd0 should have been shown by the ls -l /dev/fd? pattern so is that a broken link?
"lsmod | grep floppy" - does it show the floppy module loaded?
If "ls -l /dev/fd0*" does not show a series of device nodes try:
"/sbin/MAKEDEV fd0"
and retry the operations that are failing.
If this still fails ensure that the device is enabled in the system's bios. Speaking of that, is the device seen at boot time?
"dmesg | grep ^Floppy" or "grep ^Floppy /var/log/dmesg" should show fd0 and a size.
John