2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ?

Greetings hard working coders,

I recently installed 2.4.0 on a RH 7 box, replacing the stock RH kernel-hack that came with the CD distro.

All is well, however, I get a wrong major/minor reported when attempting to mount /dev/fd0 ... I have tried all the fd0* related to a 1.44 disk in /dev with same message. The default major,minor for my /dev/fd0 is 2,0 (worked before upgrade).

I apologize in advance for submitting his to the kernel list, but if anyone has a moment to step away from chronic kernel-hacking-frustration-syndrom ... I would appreciate I tip as to what and how I may have broken something in my 2.4.0 config and how to regain access to my floppy drive.

Sincerely thankful,

Jeff

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Sounds like it can't find the floppy driver, for whatever reason...

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I have seen this message, new with 2.4.0-2mdk (before I have 2.4.0-0.15mdk)
but only on one PC.
I have 2 PC, with same hardware, same PCMCIA config The first have mandrake 7.2 Odissey, and the modules floppy and floppy_cs are loaded, and /mnt/floppy is mounted The second have mandrake 7.1 Helium, and the modules fail during init. and I have this message:
'mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number'

Problem of compatibility of some library?

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Still checking ...

I also want to mention that the physical drive light *does* indicate partial success at some level of access, but mounting fails due to the major/minor problem. I am trying to determine if this is a kernel-CONFIG or a kernel-SPECIFIC problem I have encountered with this 2.4.0 upgrade.

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I have seen this message, new with 2.4.0-2mdk (before I have 2.4.0-0.15mdk)
but only on one PC.
I have 2 PC, with same hardware, same PCMCIA config

The first have mandrake 7.2 Odissey, and the modules floppy and floppy_cs are loaded, and /mnt/floppy is mounted modutils-2.4.1-1mdk

The second have mandrake 7.1 Helium, and the modules fail during init. and I have this message:
'mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number' modutils-2.3.21-2mdk (the last rpm-3)

Problem of compatibility of some library?
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I have seen this message, new with 2.4.0-2mdk (before I have 2.4.0-0.15mdk)
but only on one PC.
I have 2 PC, with same hardware, same PCMCIA config

The first have mandrake 7.2 Odissey, and the modules floppy and floppy_cs are loaded, and /mnt/floppy is mounted modutils-2.4.1-1mdk

The second have mandrake 7.1 Helium, and the modules fail during init. and I have this message:
'mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number' modutils-2.3.21-2mdk (the last rpm-3)

I have copied the files of modutils-2.4.1-1mdk,
and created 2 sym.links:

# ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.0-2mdk/pcmcia/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 jan 10 22:09 ds.o -> ../kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           32 jan 17 11:30 floppy.o -> ../kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 jan 17 11:30 floppy_cs.o -> ../kernel/drivers/block/floppy_cs.o
and now, it works!
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I am not using pcmcia, as this is a desktop with ISDN (Fritz! PCI ISDN card), but I only get more verbose error messages with the /dev/fd0CompaQ :

#> mount /dev/fd0CompaQ /mnt/floppy
#> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 #> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 #> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 2 #> /dev/fd0CompaQ: Input/output error
#> mount: /dev/fd0CompaQ has wrong major or minor number

I will attempt a recompile with floppy as a module (as RH 2.2.16-22 did ... /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/block/ide-floppy.o), and see if 'ide-floppy.o' and the new 2.4.1 modutils will help resolve this problem (unless my sad Compaq Presario 5000 BIOS IRQ setup is to blame :-(

Cheers,

Jeff

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