FC5 not reconizing floppy

[Hammer]

I just upgraded from FC3 to 5. It looks like FC5 does not reconize my floppy, drivers look to be there and when I do a restart the floppy does its thing, recycles, tried to read etc., but no floppy icon. There is no floppy icon in 'MY COMPUTER", just cdrom, cd-rw, file system and network. Any ideas.

Thanks in advance

[cquisenb]

Hi,

I've encountered this as well. I have sort of worked around it by adding the following to the /etc/fstab.

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

As it isn't set to automount, I issue "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy", when I need the floppy drive.

Curtis

[hiberphoptik]

heh... floppy drive? whats that? do people still put those in their computers? :eek: :D

[Wayne]

I just upgraded from FC3 to 5. It looks like FC5 does not reconize my floppy, drivers look to be there and when I do a restart the floppy does its thing, recycles, tried to read etc., but no floppy icon. There is no floppy icon in 'MY COMPUTER", just cdrom, cd-rw, file system and network. Any ideas.

Thanks in advance

This has been discussed and a fix has been offered. Search through the forum for 'floppy' or similar to find it.

Wayne

[Hammer]

Thanks all, found fix in another part of forum

[KRAZYBASTID]

Hammer wish you could tell us where you found fix. I have this problem where I try to write something to a floppy in Linux and it says "malformed URL" anybody know anything about that?