On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 13:02 -0500, John wrote: > I need to transfer some files via floppy; it now seems that the drive > can't be accessed- though it shows up in hwbrowser. I just upgraded > the > kernel (don't have the version handy), though I'm using KDE/fc6. Any > suggestions? > > John How have you tried to access the floppy. Have you tried any of the mtools without mopunting the floppy. For example what does: mdir a:/ return? are the flopies foprmatted as DOS disks. If so mcopy should allow you to transfer files onto and off the floppies.