No, you are seeing the "normal" behavior of the current ide-floppy driver.
If you are running a 2.4.x kernel, and are comfortable applying patches and
recompiling your own kernel, my page at
http://members.cox.net/kpfleming/ide-floppy has patches that will make the
ide-floppy driver behave in the way that you expect.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Tree" <coltree@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 05:42 PM
Subject: ide-floppies
> Hi,
> I've got an LS-120 ide floppy drive.
> 1) For it to work I have to leave a disk
> inserted when I boot the pc, otherwise
> the disc and partX devices aren't created.
>
> It seems to be treated as a non-removeable
> hard drive ?
>
> 2) My way around the problem is to put
> append="hdc=ide-scsi" into my lilo.conf
> to use scsi emulation, then it gets treated
> more like my usb Zip-100 drive.
>
> The devices /dev/ide/fd don't seem to be
> created as described in
> /usr/src/linux/Docs/filesystems/devfsd
>
> In 1) links appear in /dev/ide/hd.
>
> In 2) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/etc,
> with dynamic links in /dev/discs/disc1,
> +disc, generic are always there, partXs are
> created when a disc is inserted (as expected).
>
> You can probably tell I'm not a programmer,
> just a user, so I could be missing something
> in the conf file, etc ?
>
> Cheers,
> Colin Tree
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