Thats a known problem. Check this out http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3 and http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1299&lang=en
For some reason this problem does not appear on the list of known problems linked from the Mandrake Forum site, so I had to dig a bit to find the correct page. HTH derek On Saturday 20 April 2002 11:57 pm, Bob Read wrote: > 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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