Floppy drive doesn't mount the floppy

[bhushan4520]

Dear Friends,
I bought a new floppy drive today, In FC3 It got recognised automatically, and every setting seems to be done automatically. I checket fstab and mtab, Every where i found the entries for fd0 . But the stange thing happens that whenever i tries to open the floppy drive (browse) it gives the error
"mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"
Anybody pls help.

Bhushan Pawar.

[killaweegee]

first off is this an internal ribbon floppy or a usb floppy? I have not messed with floppies that much, but try this and see what happens.mkdir /mnt/floppy thenmount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. Not sure if it will work but it's worth a try.

[bhushan4520]

The drive is normal internal 1.44 inches floppy drive .
After executing the second code by you it returned the error

mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[killaweegee]

bhushan4520 I found this link on redhats website. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg01706.html According the article the guy forgot to plug up the power to the floppy but the system was still recognizing the controller and putting in fstab, but was getting the same error that you are getting. When you try to mount it does it even get a light on the floppy?