Re: Getting devfs to recognize a hotplugged fd0
From: Ed Schouten (ed_at_il.fontys.nl)
Date: 11/27/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:22:57 +0100 To: Patrick Bowen <pbowen25@juno.com>
Hello Patrick,
Patrick Bowen wrote:
> I'm trying to learn how to get devfs to create an fd0 enty in /dev
> automatically when I plug a floppy drive into the serial port of a
> running Dell D600 laptop running 6.0 current.
Are you sure that's possible at all? You know the serial port isn't
plug-and-play? How can the operating system tell that there is something on
the serial port at all? :)
Yours,
-- Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl>
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