No floppy device in FC5
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 12 21:34:34 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:51 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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
This is a real mystery to me in FC5. CD's get mounted by magic it seems.
There are no lines in the fstab to control this, floppies are in the
same category. I have not a clue how the system manages to mount these
Does anyone?.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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