On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 21:42, Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Apparently SL6 and FC15 do not automatically support floppy > drives anymore. (I had to put a "modprobe floppy" in my rc.local > to get my /dev/fd0 back.) > > Problem, my floppy disk still does not show up on my desktop > even with the modprobe in the rc.local. How do I get my > floppy disk to show up on my desktop again when I insert a disk?
Did that ever work? Most floppy disk units do not have a probe to say "disk inserted/removed" as that was never in the spec (some do but it was on a proprietary set I think). Some OS's would check by asking the disk drive to spin/up check which worked for some models but others would scream out and/or wear out parts. I do not have any hardware with floppy disks in it (my oldest hardware's one died years ago so I removed it.) but it looks like thunar-volman will allow you to configure how certain hardware should look. Thunar itself should then have it available in the panel. As appearing on the desktop, I have no idea.. I don't use that paradigm at/all. > Many thanks, > -T > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
