Floppy Drive

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:33 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> >From: "Don Springall" <don_springall at hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
> ><fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> >To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: Floppy Drive
> >Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:10:57 -0700
> >
> >>From: "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp at redhat.com>
> >>Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
> >><fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> >>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
> >><fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> >>Subject: Re: Floppy Drive
> >>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:56:34 -0500
> >>
> >>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:09 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> >> > Don't understand what update from today lost my floppy but it is not in
> >> > /etc/fstab again.
> >>
> >>Mounts handled by HAL do not show up in fstab anymore.  Check to see
> >>if /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy exits.  If not then it is an issue with the
> >>kernel.
> >>
> >>--
> >>John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
> >I have fstab in both /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy and neither has entry for 
> >floppy. Am using the same kernel as yesterday when I did have a floppy, 
> >2.6.15.git11 or kernel-2.6.15-1.1857_FC5.src.rpm
> >
> OK don't know where the fstab came from in /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy but 
> those directories do exist on my system. Must be some symbolic links in 
> there that are confusing me and Konqueror.  Does hal not handle the cdrom 
> mount because that is still in /etc/fstab with an entry for /media/cdrom.

Tomorrows update should be much better but yes HAL should handle the CD
drive outside of fstab.  I do have a problem with ejecting audio cd's
though.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>