Message-ID: <1A8904C3797ED411AC2E0008C7E6F88117C684@nlntmail2b.ats.nld.alcatel.nl> From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:43:03 +0100 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] /floppy
Hi Ian,
As you asked for any comment.....
You're working on a SS5, which has only scsi and no IDE interface
So I assume it is quite logical that there is no IDE-support for sun-4m
machines.....
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Donaldson [SMTP:ian@dsd-tech.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 7:37 PM
> To: Joshua Uziel
> Cc: suse-sparc@suse.com
> 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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