I am running Ubuntu server 20.04 into which I ssh. The machine itself has a floppy disk drive but it does not show up, when I run lsblk. There is also no /dev/fd0 only a /dev/fd/0.
Based on this, I
- installed
fdutils - added the user to the floppy group:
sudo adduser $USER floppy - loaded the floppy module:
sudo modprobe -v floppy.
Doing sudo modprobe -v floppy did not work, I only got an error message saying modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'floppy': No such device.
The light on the front of the floopy drive is bright green, so it at least has power.
How do I figure out if it is a hardware or software issue.
Edit:
I forgot to enable it in bios. floppy drive might still be defective (Diskette drive 0 seek failure sometimes on boot).
