I have the same problem. FD0 works fine when installing 10.2 but with the updates kills it. Same when installing 10.3 alpha.

yes, that happened to me too when I updated / upgraded 10.2.

openSUSE has made quite a few changes in /dev since 10.2. A lot of the block devices that are in 10.2 are gone or renamed in 10.3.

I think I made the wrong assumption about the /dev/fd/* devices. They are linked to /dev/pts/ devices.

Look at "/sbin/lsmod | grep floppy"
Do you have a floppy module loaded?

locate floppy.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko

Or if you have an ide-floppy drive, you may need to "sudo /sbin/modprobe ide-floppy".

Does /etc/modprobe.conf contain the line:
alias block-major-2 floppy

If not, add the line to /etc/modprobe.conf.local.

Look at the running kernel's config file:
zcat /proc/config.gz

There are two config entries that need to be either y or m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m

I'm not sure of this one:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y

and check for:
ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y


In the kernel source Documentation/ directory is a floppy.txt which lists boot options you may need and the modprobe.conf entries to add if you want these options every time.

hello jschival,
thanks for the help youare giving to me. Here are the answers:
riba:/home/bgorjup # /sbin/lsmod | grep fd0
riba:/home/bgorjup #

I did locate floppy.ko under both, block and ide entries.
I found
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m and
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m and I did not find
ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y

What happens if you type:

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

instead of

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd/0 /media/floppy ?

(removing the slash between fd and 0)

fd0 is a device, not a kernel module. The lsmod command lists the loaded kernel modules.
/sbin/lsmod | grep floppy

Did you try "sudo /sbin/modprobe floppy" and "sudo /sbin/modprobe ide_floppy"?

bgorjup@riba:~> sudo /sbin/modprobe floppy
root's password:

did the trick!!!!

bgorjup@riba:~> /sbin/lsmod | grep floppy
ide_floppy 34176 0
floppy 79624 0
ide_core 165648 3 ide_floppy,amd74xx,generic
bgorjup@riba:~>

Thank you jschiwal. I have learned some more about Linux.

hi jschiwal,

As i said, it works. The command /sbin/modprobe floppy works. The only problem is that I have to enter the command each time I reboot. Is there a solution for that too?? ( I think it is only I do not know it).

The same is with my optical devices. I have to enter the command :
/sbin/modprobe sr_mod to mount the drive and that I have to do after each reboot.

Look in /etc/modprobe.conf. Is there a line "alias block-major-2 floppy". If not add it to /etc/modprobe.conf.local.

If that doesn't work sometimes running "sudo SuSEconfig" will fix things up.

If that doesn't work, try "sudo /sbin/depmod -a" and then "sudo /sbin/mkinitrd".

If that doesn't do it, add the modules to either the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT or INITRD_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel.
Then run "sudo /sbin/SuSEconfig" and for the latter run "sudo /sbin/mkinitrd".

It is working until now. Floppy I mean. I still have to use the sudo /sbin/modprobe sr_mod for my optical drives.
And now I am facing the problem wit my trash bin. See my post.

Open YaST. Click system on the left side. From the choices on the right, choose /etc/sysconfig Editor.


From the left menu click system>kernel>MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT

Enter sr_mod in the field at the right. The module will then load automatically at boot.

Thank you pilotgi,

I followed your advice ant now it is O.K. Thank you very much.