Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:55:00 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl> Subject: Re: Getting devfs to recognize a hotplugged fd0 Message-ID: <200411282055.07190.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041127192257.GA10638@il.fontys.nl> References: <41A8C9C3.1020504@juno.com> <20041127192257.GA10638@il.fontys.nl>
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--nextPart1561447.tqgpDCc7X8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:52, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > Patrick Bowen wrote: > > I'm trying to learn how to get devfs to create an fd0 enty in /dev > > automatically when I plug a floppy drive into the serial port of a > > running Dell D600 laptop running 6.0 current. > > Are you sure that's possible at all? You know the serial port isn't > plug-and-play? How can the operating system tell that there is something = on > the serial port at all? :) I would guess he means USB when he says serial. I imagine the floppy drive appears as da0 in -current. Perhaps it worked as= =20 fd0 in 4.x with heavy (HEAVY) BIOS magic.. Also he could be parallel when he says serial... Patrik - how many pins does the port in question have? What model laptop is= =20 it? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1561447.tqgpDCc7X8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBqaeD5ZPcIHs/zowRAmN6AKCIBoXFdsANsW42nLeouC24WweyygCggZi6 GgJTRnrzXkd1PZBb5RvxQpk= =LZMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1561447.tqgpDCc7X8--
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