Floppy drive detection in RTP install

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Hi there,

I have just installed RTP from the demo CD and it appears to have failed to
detect the floppy drive (I assume I’m correct in thinking I should see an
entry for fd0 in the /dev directory). Is this normal??

Thanks,

Russ Bilbey

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Hi Russ,

You should see a /dev/fd0 entry after installation for your floppy.
The devb-fdc driver is for the floppy disk interface. It autodetects
interfaces at address 0x3f0, interrupt 6, dma channel 2 by default. If
you have an interface at a different address/interrupt/dma, you can
specify them to the driver using the fdc options.

Regards,

Barry


Russ Bilbey <russ@bilbey.com> wrote:

Hi there,

I have just installed RTP from the demo CD and it appears to have failed to
detect the floppy drive (I assume I’m correct in thinking I should see an
entry for fd0 in the /dev directory). Is this normal??

Thanks,

Russ Bilbey

3

Hi Barry,

I sort of guessed about the driver but invoking devb-fdc hangs the system so
I guess there is an IRQ conflict there.

Thanks,

Russ.

Operating System for Tech Supp <os@qnx.com> wrote in message
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Hi Russ,

You should see a /dev/fd0 entry after installation for your floppy.
The devb-fdc driver is for the floppy disk interface. It autodetects
interfaces at address 0x3f0, interrupt 6, dma channel 2 by default. If
you have an interface at a different address/interrupt/dma, you can
specify them to the driver using the fdc options.

Regards,

Barry


Russ Bilbey <> russ@bilbey.com> > wrote:
Hi there,

I have just installed RTP from the demo CD and it appears to have failed
to
detect the floppy drive (I assume I’m correct in thinking I should see
an
entry for fd0 in the /dev directory). Is this normal??

Thanks,

Russ Bilbey