Hi, Have you tried to manually add the floppy drive to the fstab? Regards, Everaldo Everaldo.peixoto@xxxxxxxxxx -----Mensagem original----- De: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] Em nome de taharka Enviada em: segunda-feira, 25 de julho de 2005 14:46 Para: For users of Fedora Core releases Assunto: Re: Floppy Drive Gone Paul Howarth wrote: > taharka wrote: > >> Steve Croteau wrote: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I was just minding my own business the other day when I decided to >>> write a file to my floppy drive using FC3. Much to my surprise the >>> icon I always found under "computer" was gone. Looked in /etc/fstab >>> and found no reference. I had just used it 2 weeks ago. Could an >>> update have removed it for some reason? The same thing happened to >>> my other FC3 box. What is the exact entry I need to put this back >>> into /etc/fstab? >>> Thanks, >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, same issue here on fc3 :-( I found the culprit to be the Jul >> 15th kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update. Surprisingly, it's not an >> selinux issue, as rebooting with selinux disabled, makes no >> difference. Reverting back to the previous kernel, kernel >> 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, corrected the problem for me. BTW, notice below, the >> size difference between these two kernels. Almost 11Mb!! -----------------------------8X------------------------------------ > > Perhaps that's because the latest kernel splits off a substantial part > of the original package into a separate kernel-devel package as per FC4? > > Paul. > Could be. Could floppy support have been removed also? If I look in /media, all drives are there except for floppy. taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
