No floppy device in FC5

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:44:49AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
 > >
 > > > When you say, "It should just work", does than mean a file manager 
 > > > should pop up when a floppy is inserted and a mount point created?
 > >
 > >AFAIK, you have to mount it by hand, though as I said it's been
 > >a while since I've had to resort to using a floppy, so things
 > >may have changed (though from the sounds of things, they haven't)
 > >
 > > > It doesn't and there are no /dev/fd? devices.  There are some entries 
 > > in a > directory called /dev/fd, which don't appear to be floppy related:
 > >
 > >They're your per-process file-descriptors.
 > >You should have a /dev/fd0
 > >does lsmod | grep floppy show anything?
 > >
 > >		Dave
 > >
 > lsmod | grep floppy returns nothing.  modprobe floppy returns:
 > 
 > FATAL: Error inserting floppy 
 > (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such 
 > device

Is the floppy enabled in the BIOS ?

		Dave

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