Floppy Drive

[Don Springall]

>From: "Don Springall" <don_springall at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: Floppy Drive
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:10:57 -0700
>
>>From: "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp at redhat.com>
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>>Subject: Re: Floppy Drive
>>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:56:34 -0500
>>
>>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:09 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
>> > Don't understand what update from today lost my floppy but it is not in
>> > /etc/fstab again.
>>
>>Mounts handled by HAL do not show up in fstab anymore.  Check to see
>>if /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy exits.  If not then it is an issue with the
>>kernel.
>>
>>--
>>John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
>I have fstab in both /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy and neither has entry for 
>floppy. Am using the same kernel as yesterday when I did have a floppy, 
>2.6.15.git11 or kernel-2.6.15-1.1857_FC5.src.rpm
>
OK don't know where the fstab came from in /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy but 
those directories do exist on my system. Must be some symbolic links in 
there that are confusing me and Konqueror.  Does hal not handle the cdrom 
mount because that is still in /etc/fstab with an entry for /media/cdrom.