RES: Floppy Drive Gone

[taharka]

Everaldo de Nóbrega Peixoto wrote:

>Hi, 
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>Have you tried to manually add the floppy drive to the fstab?
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>Regards,
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>Everaldo
>Everaldo.peixoto at uol.com.br
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I haven't, being that, reverting to the previous kernel, corrected the 
problem, I'm sticking with that for the time being. Can't speak for the 
OP though.

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>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
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>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>taharka wrote:
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>>>Steve Croteau wrote:
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>>>>Greetings,
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>>>>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
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>>>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?
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>>Paul.
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>Could be. Could floppy support have been removed also? If I look in 
>/media, all drives are there except for floppy.
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>taharka
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>Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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