I'm stumped trying to solve a floppy drive problem.
I'm using a PC100 motherboard: AMD k6-II 500 512MB sdram (Using drive caddies for easy swapping.) Dual booting Mandrake 8.1 w/ win98, Win98 has no problem with floppy, but linux does. Identical drive, Red Hat /win98, neither have any problem. With Mandrake, when I try to mount floppy it tells me, "Could not mount floppy The reported error: Mount /dev/fd0: unknown device." Ctrl Ctr: Block Devices: /dev/fd0 auto N/A /mnt/floppy 00.0 N/A HardDrake: Doesn't list it under floppy Drives. (But lists my external/parallel ZIP drive there.) Mandrake put a floppy icon on the KDE destop. POSSIBLY RELATED: When I go into KDE, I get a message "The process for the file protocal died unexpectedly." I don't get any warning going into Gnome, but still no floppy. And am not aware of any other file problems in Kde fstab========================= /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/sda /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1fat vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd2 /mnt/hdd2ext2 ext2 defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 ================================ Any help will be much appreciated. Bob
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