floppy Problem on AXP 400/4 233, OSF/1 3.2

From: Lukas Rosenthaler <rosenth_at_foto.chemie.unibas.ch>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 17:47:38 +0200

Hello OSF-Gurus,

I have the following - urgent - problem. My new AlphaStation 400 4/233 has
a internal floppy drive which I have to use. The kernel-configuration file
contains the lines

controller fdi0 at isa0 slot 5 vector fdintr
device disk fd0 at fdi0 drive 0

and the devices

baerli|rosenth> ls -al /dev/*fd*
0 brw------- 1 root system 14, 0 May 19 19:34 /dev/fd0a
0 brw------- 1 root system 14, 2 May 19 19:34 /dev/fd0c
0 crw------- 1 root system 14, 0 May 19 19:34 /dev/rfd0a
0 crw------- 1 root system 14, 2 May 19 19:34 /dev/rfd0c

do exist. However, doing a "file" -command results in

/dev/fd0a: block special (14/0)
/dev/fd0c: block special (14/2)
/dev/rfd0a: character special (14/0)
/dev/rfd0c: character special (14/2)

which is not sufficient, and doing a

# fddisk -what /dev/rfd0c
Device driver for "/dev/rfd0c" missing.
# fddisk -what /dev/fd0c
Device driver for "/dev/fd0c" missing.

which is an error message I do not understand, since the device is in the
configuration file. Any Ideas ??

I really need this floppy quite urgently....


Thanks a lot,

        Lukas

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