missing floppy

[Dwaine Castle]

FC2 installed well and everything seemed to work -- I thought.

I noticed that my floppy drive doesn't work.  I'replaced the drive and cable
with new parts then reinstalled FC2.  The BIOS will boot a DOS floppy, and a
RH9 boot floppy created from on an XP machine.  Attempts to mount the floppy
manually yield "invalid block device".

I am working my way through Michael Jang's RHCE ver8 study guide. but it
doesn't offer much help with this.  I had RH9 on this machine and the
original drive worked fine.

Any suggestions?

I think that having 3 devices share IRQ 10 seems funny, but one thing at a
time.

Thank you.
Dwaine


Suprmicro P4STA /1.7Ghz
768 MB memory
80GB WD-JB HD
HP9900i CD
SoundBlaster16 audio



           CPU0
  0:     619774          XT-PIC  timer
  1:        456          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
 10:      49610          XT-PIC  eth0, radeon at PCI:1:0:0, Ensoniq
AudioPCI
 11:          0          XT-PIC  uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
 12:       7441          XT-PIC  i8042
 14:      17552          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:       5746          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0

0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-0077 : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
037b-037f : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
5000-500f : 0000:00:1f.3
9000-9fff : PCI Bus #01
  9000-90ff : 0000:01:00.0
a000-a03f : 0000:02:01.0
  a000-a03f : Ensoniq AudioPCI
a400-a4ff : 0000:02:04.0
  a400-a4ff : tulip
b000-b01f : 0000:00:1f.2
  b000-b01f : uhci_hcd
b400-b41f : 0000:00:1f.4
  b400-b41f : uhci_hcd
f000-f00f : 0000:00:1f.1
  f000-f007 : ide0
  f008-f00f : ide1
 4: cascade

Block devices:
  1 ramdisk
  2 fd
  3 ide0
  7 loop
  9 md
 22 ide1
253 device-mapper
254 mdp