I do not know how Fedora automatically mounts removable media, but I
know that RHEL 5 would automount a MS FAT file system on a floppy drive.
What files need to be configured in RHEL 6 (e.g., SL 6) for automounting
of the internal floppy once the floppy device is created? A USB floppy
appears to be automounted once media is installed.
The Zip drive on my machine uses a IDE interface and IDE in RHEL 6 no
longer is automounted as a hd but is mapped to a sd , but otherwise
works fine and automounts. However, the internal floppy uses the floppy
interface on the mother board, neither IDE nor SATA.
Finally, for those times when a colleague gives me an Apple format
floppy (not a MS format), generally from Mac OS prior to Mac OS X (e.g.,
not BSD based but based on the old proprietary Apple Mac OS), is there
any additional file system for RHEL 6 that still will recognize an Apple
format? There was for RHEL 5 and preceding releases.
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
On 06/26/2011 09:46 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
In Fedora Code 15 and SL6, floppy drives are no longer
automatically supported. Rats ...
If I "#modprobe floppy", I get my /dev/fd0 back. I can then
manually mount floppy drive disks. But I do not get the
bazillions of /dev/fd* entries in /dev. Just the one /dev/fd0.
And, my floppy drive does not show up in my Xfce 4.8
file manager, before or after the modprobe.
Do I need to yum something? Did I miss a driver? I
can manually mount disks.
Many thanks,
-T
