Re: [suse-sparc] /floppy

From: Ian Donaldson (ian@dsd-tech.co.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 10:37:14 PST

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    From: Ian Donaldson <ian@dsd-tech.co.uk>
    Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:37:14 GMT
    Message-ID: <20001203.18371400@donaldson.home>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] /floppy
    

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    On 12/3/00, 12:03:59 AM, Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com> wrote regarding Re:
    [suse-sparc] /floppy:

    > * Ian Donaldson <ian@dsd-tech.co.uk> [001202 16:00]:
    > > Sparc5 (running a freshly installed copy of SuSE 7 of course) cannot
    > > mount the floppy. I keep getting the following error messages :-
    > >
    > > "/dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number" with command "mount /floppy"
    > > I also get the above error when I try to mount it using vfat
    > >
    > > "fs type dos not supported by kernel" with command "mount -t dos /dev/fd0
    > > /floppy" I also get the above error when I try to mount it using fat
    > >
    > > Does the default kernel not support windows formated floppy's at all.

    > Nope... this is a known problem... just rebuild a kernel with it
    > enabled and it'll work...

    I installed the kernel sources and did a "make menuconfig" I set the file
    types fat, VFAT and DOS as built in rather than loadable modules and left
    everything as default. I then did "make dep" everything fine, I then did
    "make vmlinux" which after a few minutes stopped with error messages
    something about IDE not supported under Sparc. I went back into
    menuconfig but
    I couldn't find anything about IDE support. Any ideas as I am completely
    lost.

                                    Regards Ian Donaldson

    Newtownards
    Northern Ireland
    ian@dsd-tech.co.uk
    ian@ards.freeserve.co.uk



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