Owner's Manual

18 Installation Instructions and Important Information
4 Ty p e cat /proc/partitions at the command prompt.
The final SCSI device in the list is the USB diskette drive.
5 At the command prompt, type: 
mkdir -p /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/sdx/mnt/floppy
where sdx is the SCSI device letter assigned to the diskette drive.
Your system can now access the diskette drive.
Using Dell DKMS Drivers After Kernel Upgrade
If the kernel is upgraded in a system where the DKMS driver is installed, follow
the below steps to ensure that the updated dkms driver is installed for the latest
kernel.
1 If the module version in the updated kernel is higher than the DKMS
driver version, continue using the native driver.
2 If the module version in the updated kernel is less than the DKMS driver
version, then use the DKMS driver.
To use the DKMS driver, create a file in /etc/depmod.d with filename
dkms_module_name.conf with an entry as below:
override module_name kernel_version
modules_directory
For bnx2 driver, create a file bnx2.conf in /etc.depmod.d/ with the below
contents:
override bnx2 2.6.9-x.el4 weak-updates
And run depmod –a
PowerNow! Does Not Update /proc/cpuinfo on AMD Processor-Based Systems
When running a 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel with demand-
based speed enabled in the BIOS, /proc/cpuinfo does not display the correct
processor speed. To work around this issue, run the following command:
cat/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_f
req
This issue will not be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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