From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 10:25:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118A316A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:25:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1394843D66 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iASAP8fQ006238; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:55:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:55:00 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41A8C9C3.1020504@juno.com> <20041127192257.GA10638@il.fontys.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041127192257.GA10638@il.fontys.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1561447.tqgpDCc7X8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411282055.07190.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.8 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Patrick Bowen cc: Ed Schouten Subject: Re: Getting devfs to recognize a hotplugged fd0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:25:20 -0000 --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--