Fedora 12 not seeing floppy disk controller

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 20:03:55 -0600,
  Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> For some reason my F-12 system  is not seeing my floppy disk controller
> at boot time.  If I manually run "modprobe floppy" the controller is
> recognized ("FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077") and the drive works.  Any
> ideas?  F-11  finds the controller OK.
> 
> F-12:  kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64, udev-145-14.fc12.x86_64
> F-11:  kernel-2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64, udev-141-7.fc11.x86_64
> 
> Search in bugzilla not finding anything relevant.

Take a look at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741

Thanks for the work around tip. I don't use my floppy drives too often, but
I was looking at flashing a bios and it looks like a need to write a floppy
to do it.