floppy drive and FC5

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 11:28:28 UTC 2006


On 06/12/06, john s. <john at johnsdesign.net> wrote:
>   Odd question; this box has 5 installed, I can't access the floppy
> drive- it doesn't show up when I click on the Computer icon on the
> desktop. I thought the drive might not be connected correctly, since I
> can't remember if the floppy was accessable when I set the box up.  My
> laptop, I orig had 5 loaded (same story with the floppy drive), then
> upgraded to 6; w/6, I can access the floppy drive.
>   I set up a second box w/5 over the weekend; the floppy disappeared
> after running patches and installing programs. Has anyone else seen/have
> this happen? Is there a way to correct things?
>
>                      John

My FC6 machine can't access the floppy drive, either. Just a generic
floppy for those interested, and it doesn't bother me at all. I'm not
sure if FC5 was able to, but FC4 could (same machine).

Dotan Cohen

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