Comment 95 for bug 441835

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Kevin Slade (kevin-kiwisoft) wrote : Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

Looking at /dev on 8.04 I see
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 84 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1040
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 88 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1120
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 28 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1440
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 124 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1600
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 44 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1680
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 60 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1722
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 76 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1743
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 96 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1760
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 116 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1840
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 100 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u1920
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 12 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u360
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 16 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u720
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 120 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u800
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 52 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u820
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 68 2009-12-06 18:41 /dev/fd0u830

9.04 does not have anything in /dev/fd0*

9.10 has 0nly the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-12-05 10:02 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2009-12-05 10:02 /dev/fd0

Is it likely that the missing block devices is the cause of the problem?