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