Everyone: How do you mount a floppy in FC3? In FC1 or 2, you inserted a floppy into the drive and then used the Disk Management Tool to mount and unmount them. (Or you issued the mount command in a terminal window, specifying a mount point like "/mnt/floppy".) In FC3, as far as I've determined, any USB device will now mount itself automatically, same as a CD or DVD does. (I haven't tested simply jerking out the USB plug to see whether that's safe or not--is it?) But my floppy drive won't detect the disk in the drive--and Disk Management tell me that "there are no file systems that you are allowed to mount or unmount; contact your system administrator." I haven't yet tried to stick in a floppy disk when logged in as "root," but--hey, come on!--if someone has to log in as "root" just to use a floppy disk, that's a real step backward from prior releases, don't you think? The "Removable Storage" preferences dialog has an icon of a floppy disk drive, where it discusses the checkoffs for automatically mounting removable media when I insert it. What's happening? Do modern floppy disk drives automatically detect freshly inserted media while old-style IDE FDD's don't? Or do I need to get a USB FDD in order to take advantage of the new automatic mounting of FDD's? -- Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx>
