Floppy not configured (again!)

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs math clemson edu>]

So I had this problem recently with RH6.0 where mtools and dd would
fail to work with /dev/fd0, saying that the device was "not
configured".  Somebody (sorry, don't recall who) suggested using
/dev/fd0h1440 instead, and that seemd to be OK for a while, but now
that has also ceased to work!

Examples of problems:

	[root yankee images]# dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0h1440 bs=72k
	dd: /dev/fd0h1440: Device not configured

	[root yankee images]# mdir a:
	Can't open /dev/fd0H1440: Device not configured
	Cannot initialize 'A:'

Mounting the floppy on /mnt/floppy seems to work, but it shouldn't
be necessary and it doesn't solve the dd problem anyway.

So what am I doing wrong now?  And how do I "configure" a floppy drive?
I could swear this used to work with 5.2...

Thanks for any hints.  At the moment, it seems that I have to boot 
into WINDOWS to use my floppy drive.  Bah!.

		Matthew Saltzman
		Clemson University Math Sciences
		mjs clemson edu
		http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs