Bug 7383

Summary: /dev/fd0 not accepted for floppy0
Product: Mageia Reporter: barry marchant <barry-m>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal CC: tmb
Version: 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description barry marchant 2012-09-07 03:57:56 CEST
I can not access a floppy drive in windows98 running under qemu in linux

In qemu I issue the following....
qemu: eject floppy0
qemu: change floppy0 /dev/fd0

The msg is 'could not open '/dev/fd0''

When trying to access A: drive I get the msg 'A:\ is not accessable' and 'The device is not ready.'

TIA

Barry
Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2012-09-07 21:16:59 CEST
We dont autoload floppy support anymore as several hw that does not have the physical device, but still has references to it in bios/acpi tables have had
problem with it...

So if you need it, you must load it manually as root with the command: 

modprobe floppy


If you need it autoloaded on every boot, do as root:

echo floppy >/etc/modprobe.preload.d/floppy.conf

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 barry marchant 2012-09-08 09:38:32 CEST
Thank you for your prompt reply. Sorry my problem is not clear.

The module is loaded and floppy drive works fine under linux. The problem is with windows/qemu where I wish to access the floppy. I try to set it up on the qemu console with the commands above, which fail.

Barry
Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-05 16:52:11 CET
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Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-02 14:31:52 CET
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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX