Hi, I got my floppy mounted but don't understand the mystery behind it. What I did was: 1) removed the link to floppy I created manually from desktop. 2) opened the KDE control center. 3) under the Desktop section > behavior tab > show devices icon, checked the unmounted floppy 4) KDE now created the floppy icon in my desktop at this point my fstab looks that this (as suggested previously): (NOTE: fstab is one line) ------------------------------- /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0 -------------------------------------- Now I can mount the floppy by double cliking the icon or just give command $ mount /media/floppy (as normal user) both works 5) Just to make sure it does work with the original fstab setting I changed back my fstab back to ----------------------------- /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 -------------------------------- 6) reboot fedora It still works without problem. Now, I am bit confused here. It seems like KDE does something behind. Does KDE use differnt ID or method to access the floppy? Thanks all for your valuable suggestions. Deepak K. Shrestha Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com