/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

From: Matt Morgan (matt.morgan-fedora-list_at_brooklynmuseum.org)
Date: 04/09/04

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    This is probably dumb. When I installed Fedora I did not have a floppy
    drive installed. I just added one, and kudzu (or something) seems to
    have noticed it, although any changes it made, it made silently. But I
    see, for example, that my /etc/fstab was modified about 30 minutes ago,
    and the last line in it is

    /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

    besides that, if I run hwbrowser, I have a 3.5" 1.44 Mb floppy listed.

    But, if I try to mount it, I get "/dev/fd0 is not a valid black device"
    and if I try fdformat /dev/fd0, I get "/dev/fd0: no such device or address".

    FYI, I'm logged in as root trying these things, just to be sure. Oddly,
    I notice that the listing for /dev/fd0 looks like

    brw-rw---- 1 morganm floppy 2, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/fd0

    (Or maybe that's normal--but why is morganm, my regular user account,
    the owner of /dev/fd0? In any case, changing ownership to root doesn't
    help).

    It's possible this is a bad floppy drive, and I suppose it's possible I
    plugged in the cable backwards ... but all of these errors happen before
    it even gets to the point of trying to read the floppy, so it seems like
    something else is broken.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Matt 

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