On 06/26/2011 08:51 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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.
My floppy drive shows up under CentOS 5.6, 32 bit, Xfce 4.4.2, Thunar 0.9.0, but does not show up on my desktop. I would be happy to have my floppy show back up in Xfce 4.8's file manager. I can live without it on the desktop. > 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. Not seeing anything specific to floppies in device management (which I presume is thunar-volman). _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
