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Re: Floppy drive support
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom H <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:40:48 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Check out udisks.

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