RES: Floppy Drive Gone

[Everaldo de Nóbrega Peixoto]

Hi, 

Have you tried to manually add the floppy drive to the fstab?

Regards,

Everaldo
Everaldo.peixoto at uol.com.br


-----Mensagem original-----
De: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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!!


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>
> 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.