Floppy mounting

From: Temlakos (temlakos_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/05/05

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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:44:59 -0500

    Everyone:

    How do you mount a floppy in FC3?

    In FC1 or 2, you inserted a floppy into the drive and then used the Disk
    Management Tool to mount and unmount them. (Or you issued the mount
    command in a terminal window, specifying a mount point like
    "/mnt/floppy".)

    In FC3, as far as I've determined, any USB device will now mount itself
    automatically, same as a CD or DVD does. (I haven't tested simply
    jerking out the USB plug to see whether that's safe or not--is it?) But
    my floppy drive won't detect the disk in the drive--and Disk Management
    tell me that "there are no file systems that you are allowed to mount or
    unmount; contact your system administrator." I haven't yet tried to
    stick in a floppy disk when logged in as "root," but--hey, come on!--if
    someone has to log in as "root" just to use a floppy disk, that's a real
    step backward from prior releases, don't you think?

    The "Removable Storage" preferences dialog has an icon of a floppy disk
    drive, where it discusses the checkoffs for automatically mounting
    removable media when I insert it.

    What's happening? Do modern floppy disk drives automatically detect
    freshly inserted media while old-style IDE FDD's don't? Or do I need to
    get a USB FDD in order to take advantage of the new automatic mounting
    of FDD's? 

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Temlakos <temlakos@gmail.com>
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