No floppy device in FC5

[Ian Malone]

On 6/15/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Alan M. Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:33, nigel henry wrote:
> >
> >>Well I can't say that I'm too happy about the way that FC5 is handling
> >>removable devices. Each time I load a CDROM. or a DVDROM, I get boxes
> >>opening, winging about what do I want to do with it. Just tried a floppy, and
> >>I get absolutely nothing.
> >
> >
> > What, in your estimation, would be the correct behavior? And what other
> > OS and operating environment gets this behavior right?
>
> All MicroSoft products handle floppies better than all versions
> of Linux.
>

And the last time I used a Mac with a floppy drive it had the correct
behaviour (detected and appeared on the desktop).  That would be a
decade ago...

(That said, it also had the incorrect behaviour that if the disk got
stuck in the drive it was possibly an RMA)

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imalone