No floppy device in FC5

[nigel henry]

On Monday 12 June 2006 18:39, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:33:02AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>  > I've read the release notes and see no mention of a floppy device, other
>  > than a mention of removable devices not being added to fstab.  Where did
>  > they go?  How can I make them?  I need to access a floppy...
>
> That's removable devices in the sense of USB keys and the like.
> The floppy driver should 'just work' as it always did
> (though I admit, it's been about 12 months since I've personally tried it)
>
>   Dave
>
> --
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

Well I can't say that I'm too happy about the way that FC5 is handling 
removable devices. Each time I load a CDROM. or a DVDROM, I get boxes 
opening, winging about what do I want to do with it. Just tried a floppy, and 
I get absolutely nothing.

It was so nice when the removable drives were in /etc/fstab. You knew exactly 
where you were. Now. Goodness knows what is messing about with these 
removable devices.

Not happy about FC5 at all, and thats apart from the r128 driver not working 
for my Rage 128 graphics card, which works perfectly for FC1,2, and 3 on the 
same machine.

Nigel.