On Monday 12 June 2006 20:29, David Boles wrote: > nigel henry wrote: > > On Monday 12 June 2006 19:10, Dave Jones wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > >> > When you say, "It should just work", does than mean a file manager > >> > should pop up when a floppy is inserted and a mount point created? > >> > >> AFAIK, you have to mount it by hand, though as I said it's been > >> a while since I've had to resort to using a floppy, so things > >> may have changed (though from the sounds of things, they haven't) > >> > >> > It doesn't and there are no /dev/fd? devices. There are some entries > >> > in a directory called /dev/fd, which don't appear to be floppy > >> > related: > >> > >> They're your per-process file-descriptors. > >> You should have a /dev/fd0 > >> does lsmod | grep floppy show anything? > >> > >> Dave > > > > Well as I've just posted, inserting a floppy in FC5 returns nothing, > > although removable devices are supposed to be autodetected with FC5. > > CDROM stuff is detected, although with a lot of bulls,,t boxes,asking > > what you want to do with the media. > > > > I've just moved the same floppy to the other machine running FC2, opened > > Kdiskfree, mounted the floppy, and then opened it in a file manager. > > Works like clockwork. > > If by 'it does not work' you mean that no icon appears on the desktop for > the floppy? > > Look in the 'Computer' folder on your desktop, or select the 'Places' drop > down menu and then select 'Computer' and click on the Floppy icon. It will > mount the floppy and a icon will appear on your desktop. You will have to > unmount it by selecting that in the icon menu. The icon will disappear. > > -- > > > David Hi David. That Might be ok if using Gnome. I've just tried it and the floppy opens ok in a file manager. I use KDE, and as I've said the CDROM/DVDROM drives open up this box asking what I want to do with this media, but even though the CDROM/DVDROM stuff opens ok in KDE, the floppy drive has gone AWOL. There was never anything wrong with all the removable media being in /etc/fstab. I'm damned if I am going to have to log out of KDE, log back into Gnome, (which I don't use) just to gain access to my floppy drive. Which idiot, and I repeat "idiot" has decided to remove all the removable media from /etc/fstab? I admit, I don't often need to use a floppy disc, but when you do, it would be nice to think that you could use it. As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with FC5, and thats leaving aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem. Nigel.
