Re: Double 'block' link for floppy

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:33:55PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 5/21/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm seeing an oddity with floppy:
> > 
> > $ vdir /sys/devices/platform/floppy.0/
> > total 0
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 21 22:43 block -> ../../../block/fd1
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 21 22:43 block -> ../../../block/fd1
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 21 22:43 bus -> ../../../bus/platform
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 May 21 22:43 detach_state
> > 
> > I suspect the first is actually supposed to be 'fd0' since:
> > 
> > $ vdir /sys/block/fd*/device
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 21 22:52 /sys/block/fd0/device -> ../../devices/platform/floppy.0
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 21 22:52 /sys/block/fd1/device -> ../../devices/platform/floppy.0
> > 
> 
> I just took a look here, and I don't see what you see : 

That'll be because your system is obviously configured for only one
floppy drive.  Configure it for two and see what happens.  (Naturally
the BIOS will complain if you don't actually have a second drive.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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